#write

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#bill #college #dirty #great #had

I wasn't born to cook or clean, but to read and write, if you don't like me the way I am, then go fly a kite. ↗

— Besa Kosova

#writers #writing #cooking

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#pen #pens #writers #writing #humor

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#imagine #imagining #natural #writer #imagination

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer. ↗

— Angel Haze

#desire #end #exist #find #form

Writing romantic fiction is the second chance that loved ones denied us. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fiction #writers #writing #love

You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#far #find #go #his #i

Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma and makes woman's erotic force something that male storytelling can never quite explain or contain. ↗

— Peter Brooks

#men #sexuality #storytellers #women #writers

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. ↗

— Russell Banks

#care #love #people #want #who

One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death. ↗

— Philip Sington

#death