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Writer Quotes (page 56)

Sinclair Lewis quote: "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't..."
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write Sinclair Lewis
Richard Ford quote: "The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than..."
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being Richard Ford
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself. John Leonard
That was when Angel Wells became a fiction writer, whether he knew it or not. That's when he learned how to make the make-believe matter to him more than real life mattered to him; that's when he learned how to paint a picture that was not real and never would be real, but in order to be believed at all- even on a sunny Indian summer day- it had to be better made and seem more real than real; it had to sound at least possible. John Irving
My first editor used to say that eighty-five per cent of what goes on in a novelist's head is none of his business, a sentiment I've never believed should be restricted to just writers. Stephen King
A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what the writer has to say Richard Hughes
The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. Charlotte Bronte
One writer said that the door of history turns on small hinges, and so do people’s lives. If we were to apply that maxim to our lives, we could say that we are the result of many small decisions. In effect, we are the product of our choices. We must develop the capacity to recall the past, to evaluate the present, and to look into the future in order to accomplish in our lives what the Lord would have us do. Thomas S. Monson
But I gotta tell you, I just think to look across this room and automatically assume that somebody else is less aware than me, or that somehow their interior life is less rich and complicated and acutely perceived than mine, makes me not a good writer. Because that means I'm going to be performing for a faceless audience instead of trying to have a conversation with a person. David Foster Wallace
Conrad,Nabokov, Naipaul - these are writers known for having managed to migrate between languages, cultures, countries, continents, even civilizations. Their imaginations were fed by exile, a nourishment drawn not through roots but through rootlessness. My imagination however, requires that I stay in the same street, in the same house, gazing at the same view. Istanbul's fate is my fate. I am attached to this city because it has made me who I am. Orhan Pamuk
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough. Eudora Welty
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Vita Sackville-West
T. S. Eliot quote: "Every writer owes something to Holmes."-- T.S. Eliot, in The..."
Every writer owes something to Holmes."-- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929 T. S. Eliot
Paulo Coelho quote: "I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books."
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. Paulo Coelho

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