1519 Writers Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out. Allan Savory

You People Freelance Society Dig Peeling Out Onion Writers Leaders New Ideas New Ideas Get Artists Who Deep Keep Start

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. Camille Paglia

Generation People Thanks Young Older Those Enter Has-Been Rupture Writers Since Major Most Were Been Continuity Intellectual North North American American Did Forgotten Influenced Young People Breakthroughs American Writers Older Generation Professions

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. Doris Lessing

Book Job Think Thinking Mine Way Slightly Would Someone Something Writer Writers Had Like Perhaps Know Read Equivalent Questions Provoke Different Literary Them Shower Different Way Start

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. Edna Ferber

Seen Sight Rarely Writers Read Should

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit. Ellen Hopkins

Best Phones Enjoy Too Wilderness Way Relaxation Bit Best Way Spirit Take Writers Computers Hot Longer Term Block Camping Tub Short Just Being Anything Short-Term Really

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people. Flea

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. Gloria Steinem

Women Ego Value Guilt Men Say Favor Writers Exchange Idea Comedians Male Shock May Want Psychologists Places Fantasy Based

An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes. H. P. Lovecraft

Bible Simple King Rich Analytical Saxon Though Composition Vocabulary Invaluable General Poetic Habit Excellent Writers Study Quaint Equal Forceful Cultivate Model James Rhythm Themes Production Hard English Even Imaginative

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly. Harold Ross

Editing Same Thing Exactly Writers Same Thing

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will. Helen Garner

Writing Ride Result Desperate Will Every Thousand Dream Must Signing Martini Drink Neurotic Writers Suppose Know Around Idiots Deals Intending Tiny Experts While Decisions Page Who Cool Fully Bars Acts Actual Publishers

When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking. Ira Glass

You Fight Wonderful Sometimes Thought Practice Other Imitate Everyone Collaborate Collaborators Bad Would Something Writer Writers Picking Suppose Forces Understand Opinions Were Artistic Different Who Agree Why

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. Isabel Allende

Getting enough sleep makes us better family members, friends, lovers, drivers, writers, cooks, and pretty much everything else that is of importance in our lives. James G. Stavridis

Family Better Enough Else Our Everything Everything Else Our Lives Members Pretty Writers Drivers Importance Makes Friends Family Members Getting Lovers Us Much Cooks Lives Sleep

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. Jim Harrison

Life You Wine Advice Unless Willing Give Only Writers Red Red Wine Also Your Aspiring Whole Helps Garlic

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. John Updike

Alone Late Dare Writers Go Bloom Decay May Early Incorrigible

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries. M. J. Rose

Sad Musicians Sometimes Dreamers Wine Long Mysteries Walks Sweet Think Melancholy City Seductive Enticing Paris Writers Smells She Always Yes Curious Just Artists Senses Lovers Fantasies

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. Maurice Saatchi

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Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Mr. T

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. Murray Gell-Mann

Physics Word Sense Changes Chaos Indefinitely System Outcome Rather Writers Particular Namely Course Nonlinear Condition Lot Often Tiny Sensitive Means Used Initial Phenomenon Vague

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book. Neel Mukherjee

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