Quotes Tagged With :writing

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their....

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He....

The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the....

Somewhere int he flesh of the earth the dreadful earthquake shuddered, the tide walked to and fro on....

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The....

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery.....

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves....

If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging,....

They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing....