AtomicQuote

Peter S Beagle Quote

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.

Peter S Beagle

After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.

Tags: authorship, fantasy, writing

Related Quotes

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.

Tags: acumen, author, authorship, careless, carelessness, caution, discernment, erase, error, errors

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

Will Advise

All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.

Tags: australia, authors, authorship, books, continent, continents, external, geography, knowledge, life

I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and wha...

Robin Sacredfire

I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and wha...

Tags: altruism, author, authors, authorship, daniel marques, freemasonry, illuminati, kindness, positivism, research

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...

Cormac McCarthy

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...

Tags: authorship, creation, creative process, driving forces, hardship, pain, writing

There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have...

Elena Ferrante

There is this presumption, in those who feel destined for art and above all literature: we act as if we had received an investiture, but in fact no one has invested us with anything, it is we who have...

Tags: authority, authorship, destiny fulfilled, elena ferrante

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

Stefanos Livos

Somebody told me I'm a writer. I believed them. Now I regret it.

Tags: authors on authors, authorship, writing, writing life

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay...

Christopher Hitchens

Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay...

Tags: authorship, book reviews, books, collaboration, essays, readers, writers, writing

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the p...

Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have the power of the pen to write the next chapter, and the privilege to author the page in whatever fashion we choose. Yet, seldom do we understand the power of the pen and the privilege of the p...

Tags: author, authorship, chapter, chapters, create, journal, life story, lives, page, pen

In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited t...

Eraldo Banovac

In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited t...

Tags: author, author level metric, authorship, citation, citation impact, citation index, influence, inspirational, motivational, publication

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

Susan J. McIntire

Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine a world outside your four walls or rearranging them to get a better view.

Tags: author, authorship, think different, think differently, writer, writers block, writers inspiration, writers on writing, writing