The less conscious one is of being “a writer,” the better the writing.
– Pico Iyer
Category: Quotable
Quotable 255
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
– Samuel Johnson
Quotable 254
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.
– Raymond Chandler
Quotable 253
Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive.
– Kim Addonizio
Quotable 252
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
– Toni Morrison
Quotable 251
It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
– Ernest Hemingway
Quotable 250
Just trust your own voice. And keep exploring the things that are interesting to you.
– Nikki Giovanni
Quotable 249
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
– Khalid Hosseini
Quotable 248
Words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
– Cyril Connolly
Quotable 247
Your job as a writer is to systematically deny the goal to your main character.
– Mary Robinette Kowal