"Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."
~ John Irving
Showing posts with label writer quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writer quotes. Show all posts
Oct 17, 2015
Like searching for victims
Mar 10, 2014
Mar 9, 2014
Act of Writing
"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter."
~ Edward Albee
Capacity to Astonish
"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish. The world has no grounds whatever for complacency. The Titanic couldn't sink, but it did. Where you find smugness, you find something worth blasting. I want to blast it."
~ Terry Southern
Ideal Conditions
"A writer who waits for ideal conditions
under which to work will die
without putting a word to paper."
~ E. B. White
Oct 5, 2013
Being a writer is like having homework
"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."
~ Lawrence Kasdan
Aug 16, 2013
Good writers have two things in common
"Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Jun 29, 2013
Jun 26, 2013
Jun 21, 2013
Writing is so difficult
"Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter."
~ Jessamyn West
Jun 16, 2013
Writing is the only thing...
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else." ~ Gloria Steinem
May 28, 2013
May 27, 2013
Writing is socially acceptable
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
~ E.L. Doctorow"
May 19, 2013
Writers aren't people exactly.
"Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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