115 quotes found
“To be a decent writer you must have both empathy and imagination. While these attributes aid your art, they can plague your soul. You dont simply suffer your own sadness, experience your own longin...”
“Like other kinds of intelligence, the storyteller's is partlynatural, partly trained. It is composed of several qualities, mostof which, in normal people, are signs of either immaturity orincivilit...”
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that ...”
“A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.”
“Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...”
“My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!”
“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”
“There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!”
“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you!”
“A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you cant see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!”
“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in... but before he ever begins to wri...”
“A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!!”
“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy the good ...”
“The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.”
“But, it didnt matter that my mother suspected and knew that I was a writer. It was expected of me to take care of my share of the responsibility of making our way in the world as a family. In those...”
“There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind.”
“I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.”
“You have to invest yourself as a reader to be a good writer.”
“You know that you are a writer if you are imaginative. You know that you are a writer if you are curious. You know that you are a writer if you are interested in the things and people of the world....”
“I read obsessively when I'm writing. I think there are two kinds of fiction writers, those who read incessantly while they write and those who can't read at all, lest their individual voices get ov...”
