“When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.” Quote by Paul Auster
“I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it.” WantCertainWrittenPassionateAcademic Author:Blake Bailey
“Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.” KnowsWritingMeanAbleWantedValuesTeachStudentsValuableUseless Author:Chinua Achebe
“There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.” IfsLongRealUseNamesDangerCitizensAuthorityTraditionChinaProtectionChineseJournalistPensRetaliation Author:Michael Anti
“I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The visual arts, from Manet onwards, seemed far more open to change and experiment than the novel, though that's only partly the fault of the writers. There's something about the novel that resists innovation.” ThinkingArtMatterNovelParticularInnovationFaultsInspiredExperimentsPainterVisualsVisual Art Author:J. G. Ballard
“I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.” IfsBelieveIdeasWholeFormLiteratureI BelieveDealsFictionVocabularyScrap Author:J. G. Ballard
“Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?” SelfMatterHappensNextSocialNovelHellDemandNot InterestedPreservationStaticSelf PreservationBackdrop Author:J. G. Ballard
“Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.” ModernHonestHonestyMarkAbsolutes Author:J. G. Ballard
“The reality of heaven doesn't take away the pain of or suffering or our losses, but it assures us that our pain is temporary.” RealityPainSufferingHeavenLossTemporaryPain Is Temporary Author:Dave Dravecky
“Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.” NeedsIdeasTestamentNew TestamentHeresyUnchristian Author:Vance Havner
“I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.” FirstsMotherDaughterPrioritiesMy DaughterMaintaining Author:Whitney Houston