519 quotes found
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
“I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I wr...”
“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, th...”
“As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.”
“[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!”
“We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If it wasn't for our longing for these things, I d...”
“Books are for nothing but to inspire”
“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a ...”
“To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send le...”
“The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.”
“I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write.In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as...”
“My Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her "Husbands and Brothers" page on "What the...”
“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.”
“I write to believe in goodness.”
“I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a let...”
“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.”
“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”
“The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.”
