A Quotes
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“All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.”
Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas
“All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.”
Source: The decline of the West
“All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.”
Source: Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].
“All worldly joys go less
To the one joy of doing kindnesses.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.”
“All worries are less with wine.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“All worry is atheism, because it is a want of trust in God.”
“All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.”
“All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.”
“All worship without enlightenment of the heart is fruitless.”
Source: The Religion of God (Divine Love): Untold Mysteries and Secrets of God
“All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.”
“All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.”
“All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.”
“All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.”
“All would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.”
Source: The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort
“All would live long, but none would be old.”
“All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.”
“All wounds take time to heal. You just gotta hold on, and remember that you won't feel like this forever”
Source: The Colours We See
“All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.”
Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
“All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.”
“All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.”
“All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep submitting until you get an offer. Then you can be crazy, with a paycheck.”
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to whatever topics of thought intrigues the author. Writing is a twitchy art, which attempts to employ linguist building blocks handed-down from past generations. Writers’ word choices form a structure of conjoined sentences when overlaid with the lingua of modern culture. Writers attempt to emulate in concrete form the synesthesia of our personal pottage steeped in our most vivid feelings. Writing a personal essay calls for us to sort out a jungle of lucid observations and express in a tangible technique our unique interpretation of coherent observations interlaced with that effusive cascade of yearning, the universal spice of unfilled desire, which turmoil of existential angst swamps us.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.”
“All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.”
“All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.”
Source: An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography
“All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?" I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.”
“All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.”
Source: In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography
“All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice.”
“All writers are propagandists.”
Source: Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
“All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.”
“All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.”
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.”
Source: Why I Write
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”
“All writers are vampires.”
“All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are”
Source: History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
“All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.”
“All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.”
“All writers have demons, Grayson. Nasty little guys that will chop you up and feed you to the pigeons down below. Listen to the part of you that believes and get to work.”
Source: The Audacity of Sara Grayson
“All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.”
Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde
“All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.”
“All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.”
“All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.”
“All writers, Julian went on, are attention seekers: why else would we be sitting up here on this stage? The fact is, he said, no one took enough notice of us when we were small and now we're making them pay for it. Any writer who denied the childish element of revenge in what they did was, as far as he was concerned, a liar. Writing was just a way of taking justice into your own hands. If you wanted the proof, all you had to do was look at the people who had something to fear from your honesty.”
Source: Transit
“All writers know in advance that they are not going be able to reproduce in its wonderful fullness the thing that's in their heads; we're going to get some corner of it. We're going to do the best we can, but we already know it's beyond us.”
“All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.”
“All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.”
“All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.”
Source: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
“All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.”