Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Category: Quotable
Quotable 84
Pique the reader’s curiosity, then gratify it.
– Matthew White
Quotable 83
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
– Vaclav Havel
Quotable 82
You can revise crap. You can’t revise nothing. Now get in there and write some crap!
– Saundra Mitchell
Quotable 81
Let us withdraw from the cold and barren world of prosaic fact if only for a season; that we may warm ourselves by the fireside of fancy, and take counsel of the wisdom of poetry and legend.
– David Rhys Williams
Quotable 80
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.
– Daniel Pinkwater
Quotable 79
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don’t get all writerly: “He opened the door.” There, it’s open.
– Amy Hempel
Quotable 78
A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
Quotable 77
We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.
– Christine Downing
Quotable 76
I never found out the moon didn’t come up in the west until I was a writer and Herschel Brickell, the literary critic, told me after I misplaced it in a story. He said valuable words to me about my new profession: “Always be sure you get your moon in the right part of the sky.”
– Eudora Welty