(848 quotes found)
“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
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach
“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
Alfred Kazin
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
Woody Allen
“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
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance”
Dan Greenburg
