The-writing-life Quotes

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on...

I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty ...

Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figu...

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my...

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers...

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," I...

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes...

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I en...

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class Fra...