Writer proverbs
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- Samuel Beckett98◆ A writer always writes.
- Don Roff98◆ We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.
- Dorianne Laux98◆ It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.
- Charles Dickens98◆ It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
- Tommy Cooper98◆ The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.
- Ana?s Nin98◆ The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
- Virginia Woolf98◆ Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.
- Anne Fadiman98◆ The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
- Marge Piercy98◆ You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
- Paul Simon98◆ You sure about this writer thing son?
- Christopher Moore98◆ If I were stranded on a desert island, and could have only one person and three things with me, I'd want Nietzsche, a pen, paper, and a stick-on mustache.?
- Jarod Kintz98◆ I wear a helmet when I write, because if you're doing it right, writing is dangerous.?
- Jarod Kintz98◆ I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.
- S?ren Kierkegaard98◆ It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
- Michelle Richmond98
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