Quotes 121 till 140 of 542.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
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Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
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Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
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He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
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He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines -
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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