“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.”
Archibald MacLeish
“people have lost the true meaning of writing to write is not just to write something and get paid for to write is a special talent that a few people have when you have a gift and you have a dream money and all those extra things don't matter living your dream and being a true writer is the best dream you can live”
delesha shantae buford
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons”
Robertson Davies
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
