An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
– Charles Bukowski
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 405
The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
– Jack London
Quotable 404
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
– George Orwell
Quotable 403
When I start I am in a total limbo. I don’t have any idea where the story is going or what is going to happen.
– Isabel Allende
Quotable 402
Writing, along with fire-making and the invention of the wheel, is widely held to be a milestone of human progress. This view will seem naïve to anybody who has read much human writing. … The true wellspring of civilization isn’t writing; it is editing.
– Nathan Heller
Quotable 401
I think that being a novelist means you defend human values by writing novels.
– Alaa Al Aswany
Quotable 400
Every writer is an iron-monger that melts down old junk into new steel.
– Austin O’Malley
Quotable 399
Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.
– William Zinsser
Quotable 398
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Quotable 397
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
– Salvador Dali