Category: writer
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation.’ You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle.’ All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.
Marianne Williamson
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Reality doesn’t bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark Twain
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I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert Camus
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I don’t think I represent some new category. I think I do represent kind of a freethinker.
Marianne Williamson
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One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape, always be sure to put a human figure somewhere in the scene. Why? Because readers are human beings, mostly interested in human beings. People are humanists. Most of them are humanists, that is.
Kurt Vonnegut