#writer

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns

I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine Stories - recorded many albums, and 10 years ago I started recording kid's music, too. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#albums #band #grownups #i #kid

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#both #ears #english #few #matters

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location. ↗

— James MacArthur

#allowed #did #even #first #location

I'm not a disciplined writer. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#i #writer

When a writer admits that he has an affection for something which he has written, it is high time to pray for his soul. ↗

— Dornford Yates

#high #high time #his #pray #pray for

On No Work of Words On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft: To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven, The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft. To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing death That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath And count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark. To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas If I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#poetry #reciprocity #writer-s-block #death

It's what every writer needs: a daybed. ↗

— Vince Flynn

#needs #writer