#writer

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#because #best #i #i am #i do

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#eternity #find #his #location #meet

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#book #business #few #god #hands

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. ↗

— John O'Hara

#greater #make #men #men and women #novels

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. ↗

— John O'Hara

#good #i #like #much #owning

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#much #rock #rock and roll #roll #stars

My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. ↗

— Heather O'Rourke

#different #different colors #four #make #types

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#behind #car #doing #driving #housework

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#complex #life #people #personality #politician

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#because #doing #during #erase #her