I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it.
Shannon L. AlderIn such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.
Jonathan StallingTags: words writing writers language
[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be reduced to a fearful creature who took a mistakenly guarded, absurdly cautious approach to his work, which would end up stifling his latent genius.
Félix J. PalmaTags: writing writers criticism critics
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
Harlan EllisonTags: writers courage commodity
Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.
Darnell Lamont WalkerTags: love writers immortality
My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Michelle GeaneyTags: life inspirational writers poets
If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
E.A. BucchianeriTags: reading books writers literary-criticism literature book criticism authors novels critics author judging covers i-love-books i-love-reading i-love-to-read book-cover book-covers fair-chance fair-judgement
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.
Shannon L. AlderTags: writers temptation satan spirit charity life-purpose causes life-missions organizations
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
Natalie GoldbergTags: life experience compassion writing writers write live living poem touch novel moments moment short-story cow paper care pen forever detail examination
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
C.S. LewisTags: art writers integrity christianity literature
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