Writer Quotes (page 51)

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• silence
• fear
• my everything

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will comfort and enlighten someone else. What then is my responsibility? What am I to restrain? What am I to fear and alter--my own nakedness or the grief of the reader? I want my stories to be so good they are unforgettable; to make my ideas live and my own terrors real for people I will never meet. It is a completely amoral writer's lust. If we begin to agree that some ideas are too dangerous, too... Dorothy Allison

• writing
• cooking
• wellness

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove. M. F. K. Fisher

• caring
• shine
• world

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turning into a darker and stranger place than any of us could want. This is the only thing I do that has potential to shine a little further than my immediate surroundings. For me, each story is a little candle held up to the dark of night, trying to illuminate the hope for a better world where we all respect and care for each other. Charles de Lint

• helpful
• writing
• book

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. Julian Barnes

• work
• working
• most

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. Mel Brooks

• heart
• hearted
• hearts

Realism can break a writer's heart. Salman Rushdie

• world
• attention
• book

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.[Frankfurt Book Fair speech, October 12, 2003] Susan Sontag

• motivation
• pain
• writing

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. George Orwell

• attention
• requires
• hi

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that doesn’t require his attention. Flannery O'Connor

• work
• writing
• workings

...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. Anton Chekhov

• distinctive
• distinct
• poet

The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error. Percy Bysshe Shelley

• evening
• watch
• sometimes

Perhaps there is another kind of writing, I only know this one, in the night, when anxiety does not let me sleep, I only know this one. And what is devilish in it seems to me quite clear. It is the vanity and the craving for enjoyment, which is forever whirring around oneself or even around someone else...and enjoying it. The wish that a naive person sometimes has: "I would like to die and watch others crying over me," is what such a writer constantly experiences: he dies (or he does not... Franz Kafka

• water
• partly
• paris

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.(Interview with Paris Review, 1958) Ernest Hemingway

• grief
• solitude
• competition

Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn. Toni Morrison

• writing
• marketing
• finish

Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write. Rule Two: Finish What Your Start. Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order. Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market. Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold Robert A. Heinlein