By A Writer Quotes
By A Writer Quote of the day
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
That's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.
There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.
A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
