When you’re working very hard you’re not lonely; you are the whole damn world.
– Shelby Foote
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 425
Writing doesn’t get easier with time; every novel is a first novel.
– John le Carré
Quotable 424
First-rate fiction lays hands on the reader, to heal him or rough him up or, ideally, to do both.
– Ellen Currie
Quotable 423
Something about a situation will bother me, so I will write a piece to find out what it is.
– Joan Didion
Quotable 422
Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to get away.
– William Zinsser
Quotable 421
The continually reassuring thing is that we’re all novices when we start a new work.
– Alice McDermott
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
Quotable 419
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
– Geraldine Brooks
Quotable 418
Writers had better not be too cocksure that they’ve got inspiration on their side.
– J.H. Prynne
Quotable 417
Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi