I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the developme...
I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It...
I have tried lately to read Shakespeare and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
In Ireland a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.
Make'em laugh make 'em cry make 'em wait.
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
No tears and the writer no tears and the reader.
The pen is mightier than the sword!
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James 1st James 2nd and the Old Pretender.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.
Thought flies and words go on foot.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
When my journal appears many statues must come down.
Writers aren't exactly people they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Showing 1181 to 1200 of 1439 results