You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
Oscar WildeTags: writers on-writing
I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
Stephen KingThe lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.
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Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain.
Peter BrooksTags: sexuality men women writing writers erotic storytellers
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
Susan Elizabeth PhillipsTags: books love writers stories authors author heroine
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Mignon McLaughlinTags: humor writing writers children
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
Ernest HemingwayTags: lies writers war propaganda wwi
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
AberjhaniTags: art writers beauty creativity spirituality artists poem-in-your-pocket-day national-poetry-month
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: writers
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