Life Quotes

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

William Browning Spencer

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

William Saroyan

Nuestras dudas son traidoras, porque nos hacen perder aquello que pudimos ganar, por miedo a intentarlo

William Shakespeare

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real wo...

Will Self

Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose y...

Walt Shiel

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

William Styron

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads.

William Styron

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.

Wallace Stegner

CLEOPATRA: My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

William Shakespeare

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

Wayne Thiebaud

We are none of us infallible not even the youngest of us.

William Hepworth Thompson

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

William Howard Taft

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

William Howard Taft

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

William Howard Taft

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

William Howard Taft

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

William Howard Taft

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

William Howard Taft

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

William Howard Taft

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

William Howard Taft

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

William Howard Taft