Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even...
Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madne...
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world
A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.
Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer when he tried to write of some particular day he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temp...
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
Please never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
Fundamentally all writing is about the same thing: it's about dying about the brief flicker of time we have here and the frustrations that it creates.
I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
There is but one art to omit.
you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great
Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this pas...
I write because I want to give strength to myself
I'm not a writer, I just express in words!
Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might; often you need to take the long way around. And if you're writing memoir yo...
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of...
Writers live in the world to write the sacred words.
Writing is a sacred passion.