Every wound is a word.
Yeats was straight, but as Auden wrote in ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’: You were silly like us.
We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.
If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers.
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Never give up, Never surrender!!!!!If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins
Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.
Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!
I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes...put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack
Despite the experiences that put me in the spotlight as the co-creator of my wisdom, the human part of me keeps burning, like an alchemical process that I both accept and want to refuse. You see, it's...
We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
The proverb, "Where there's a will.." sums it up for a writer who had just started in his writing life; for himself, the fictional characters and the audience of his works. It's a trinity of perspecti...
The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of them...
Those who generate fog are Wizards of Oz hoping desperately that nobody pulls the curtain to reveal a trembling little writer behind it. This seldom happens. Readers who dare to point out that incompr...
I write because I know world I create is much beautiful than the world I live in