The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
William HazlittI now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.
Sue Monk KiddStichwörter: writing writers fiction novels novelists
I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.
Richard BrautiganStichwörter: poetry writers heartbreak loving
I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife.
Roman PayneStichwörter: art writers literature creativity creation artists
Hope is a most beautiful drug.
Jeremy MercerStichwörter: writers poets paris france-books
But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the laundrette. Or to sit in a darkened flat on Halloween night, because you can't bear to expose your bleak evening to a crowd of jeering trick-or-treaters. Or to have the librarian smile pityingly and say, ‘Goodness, you're a quick reader!’ when you bring back seven books, read from cover to cover, a week after taking them out. They don't know what it is to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor's hand on your shoulder sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin.
Zoë HellerStichwörter: writers loneliness depression
Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time.
Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
Stichwörter: libraries writing writers work literature creativity literary research lifestyle studying ibiza literary-life nightclubs partying writing-style
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.
Lloyd AlexanderStichwörter: writers
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
Anaïs NinWhich of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?
Cornelia FunkeStichwörter: words books writing writers existentialism character cornelia-funke
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