Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!
You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.
I write because I hope.I write because I have faith. Hope.Hope alike a fresh flower grows in the sand of my heart . Faith.Faith alike the Sea will be perishing only when Sea disappears .
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion.
The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945
Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.
The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.
In the works of , the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.
Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.
If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at all. To have one’s writing rejected is like you, yourself, are being rejected.
Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.
The whole conception of 'sin' is one which I find very puzzling, doubtless owing to my sinful nature.
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide ...
