Writer quotations

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◆ You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won't really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we'll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.

- Anne Lamott99

◆ I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

- Carl Sandburg98

◆ I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate.

- John Steinbeck98

◆ When I write I feel like I can breathe. It's like yoga for the brain.

- Elise Stokes98

◆ Black is beautiful .Black isn't power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don't know and you ain't got no dough, you can't go and that's for sho'.

- Lewis H. Michaux98

◆ There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

- Tobias Wolff98

◆ My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.

- Coco J. Ginger98

◆ All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.

- SD Lennox98

◆ I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

- Steve Maraboli98

◆ A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

- Craig Johnson98

◆ That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

- Aldo Leopold98

◆ A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

- Stanis?aw Lem98

◆ The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

- Alberto Manguel98

◆ It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

- Peter Matthiessen98

◆ Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

- T.F. Hodge98