#writer

On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it? ↗

— David Morrell

#novelist #purpose #questions #writer #writing

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#miller #non-stop #really #someone #talker

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#writers #forgiveness

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#dinner #eat #food #great-american-novel #silence

The best kiss in nature is not between Romeo and Juliet, but it is between a dying autumn leaf and a shiny water drop! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#nature

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. ↗

— Aberjhani

#artists #beauty #creativity #national-poetry-month #poem-in-your-pocket-day

You know, poets and songwriters have long known that people like repetition. You know, poets and songwriters have long known that people like repetition. I guess when I say people, I mean everyone but my Grandfather. He hated anything that was so monotonous as repetition. That’s why he loathed walking so much. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot, and on and on. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #poets #repitition #songwriters #walking

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#humor #writers #writing #humor

I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#writers #humor

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#quality #skill #writers #writing #imagination