#writ

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#easily #make #power #room #solitude

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. ↗

— John Ruskin

#autobiographies #book #deeds #great #great nations

I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter. ↗

— Katey Sagal

#i #least #rock #rock star #singer

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#does #mean #means #preach #truth

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning. ↗

— C.S. Harris

#death #woman #beauty

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky. ↗

— Judith Rossner

#book #first #five #housewife #husband

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#even #him #loved #makes #more

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#help #only #professional #professional writer #reason

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. ↗

— Tim Roth

#ideas #me #might #reason #write

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

#driven #help #him #his #needs