Daily Writing Quote:
"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
- Marianne Moore
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@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."
- Marianne Moore
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them."
- Richard Hughes
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"A good novel is possible only after one has given up and let go."
- Walker Percy
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
- Jerry Seinfeld
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know -- one can't escape it -- but fictional characters are over-simplified; they're much less complex than the people one knows."
- Aldous Huxley
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Poetry is life distilled."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
- Philip K. Dick
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@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"I have never been a title man. I don't give a damn what it is called."
- John Steinbeck
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
- Samuel Johnson
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection."
- Toni Morrison
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder."
- Raymond Chandler
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"We are writers, my love. We don't cry; we bleed on paper."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Give me a bed and a book and I am happy."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Context is all. And a relatively pure heart. *Relatively* pure -- for if you had a pure heart you wouldn't be in the book-writing business in the first place."
- Robert Penn Warren, on the qualifications and requirements of writers
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Libraries are the vessels in which the soul of a people travels."
-- D. Aviva Rothschild
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
@worldskilgore.bsky.socialDaily Writing Quote:
"Writers don't have lifestyles. They sit in little rooms and write."
- Norman Mailer
