“No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.” IfsWritingFirstsMaySelfReadingBornFictionClassTeachReaderWideUrgesSelf KnowledgeFiction WritersReading Fiction Author:Cynthia Ozick
“I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.” UseWantedBornAnimalCareersObviousStraightforwardBeing Straightforward Book:Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing Source: Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing
“We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.” WayDiesBornSorrowShapesEndureManifoldBorn To Die Book:Art and Ardor Source: Art and Ardor
