In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.
(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle of an unrumored continent. I love the large minority of the writers on my shelves who have struggled with words and thoughts and, by my lights, have lost the struggle. All together they are my community, the creators of the very idea of books, poetry, and extended narratives, and of the amazing human conversation that has taken place across the millennia, through weal and woe, over the heads of interest and utility.
Marilynne RobinsonTags: words reading books poetry writers literature
Do Engineers have stories, Jack?" he asked.
"What?" Jack said, without moving.
"Stories. Myths. Things to keep the boredom out on a long shift."
"I think they play cards, mostly," Jack answered. It was a lie, but he told it with surprising deftness; not a waver in his voice or a hesitation in his words. Only the tightening of his shoulders told Ellis he was lying.
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Writting turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
Philip RothNever annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.
Shannon L. AlderTags: friends writing writers stories characters enemies authors analogies anger drama conflict memories irritation villians fights examples annoy cruel-people stalkers life-events jealous-women angry-men bitter-people fake-christians fiction-characters made-an-example plots
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
Meagan SpoonerTags: humor inspirational writing writers authors writer-s-block
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
Barbara KingsolverTags: reading books writing writers
Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.
Verlyn KlinkenborgTags: reading writing writers creativity editing
And so I just kept writing to myself.
Kimberly NovoselTags: writing writers writer journal journaling
We writers are resilient souls.
Lauren DeStefanoTags: writers resilience
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