It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

I am forever an advocate of books, both the reading of them and the writing. There is something sacred to me in that community. Because writing–and reading–is a solitary business. And it’s good to know...

Sensitive people care when the world doesn’t because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art...

Jika penulis tidak mempertahankan prinsipnya, apa yang tinggal untuk ditulisnya?

I don’t know where to start,” one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can....

Writers see the world differently. Every voice we hear, every face we see, every hand we touch could become story fabric.

Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become...

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

What makes me furious, not just because we’re in an interview, but I don’t like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.

You know you’re officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.

brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring,...

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few...

J’ai un but, une t che, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d’écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible.”(“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession...

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

What a man Balzac would have been if he had known how to write.

(musicians always make straight for the piano in anybody’s house, unlike writers, who can ignore a typewriter in the same room forever.)” — margaret case harriman

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn’t be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any...

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you?...

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today’s literary world; there’s precious little economic incentive to write one…

You’ll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That’s when you know you’re a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the...

For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his...

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British).

It’s some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash.” And I thought I’d already reached the lowest point of my day.

This conversation with myself has an overwhelming aroma of narcissism.

That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.

When I write…I am in the fond armsof a childhood friendupon whose colorful heart I can hang the charcoal drawingsof my woes.

Writting turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you may get ir right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn’t completely wreck...

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party

You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to ‘write.’ You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

I’m going to be a person who writes stories.I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.

I don’t do math.

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

You were silly like us.

A writer who’s afraid to express their opinions is not a writer – they’re just a person with a pen.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.