There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?
Every time somebody writes a theory about where literature's going, that person is not only contributing thought but nudging things to happen in one way or the other. Just as in painting, there's much more interest in the American scene painters and the early American. . . like the Ashcan school of painters. Who would have thought, 50 years ago, that Norman Rockwell would again be considered a serious painter? And yet, there are a lot of people who are saying Rockwell was a very accomplished technician. These things are constantly moving.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
The God we worship writes his name upon our faces.
No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.
I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.
The real writer is one who really writes.
For me Henry Corbin, the way that he writes about certain esoteric matters, is in a phenomenological way that refuses a New Age lens. But at the same time he's very much responsible for a lot of New Age thought, because he was a very syncretic thinker.
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.
When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.