#writer

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chores #expected #family #had #i

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

I'm not the slowest writer that you know. ↗

— David Remnick

#know #slowest #writer #you

The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas's fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it. ↗

— Josephine Tey

#change

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#done #feel #job #less #little

The same tools that make any writer good, plus a cheerful willingness to suspend belief. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#belief #cheerful #good #make #plus

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#get #higher #higher standard #obituary #standard

Our great American writers were all newspaper people. ↗

— John Gould

#american writers #great #great american #newspaper #our

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#expresses #faith #feelings #functions #harmony

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#every #mecca #motown #work #writer