A Quotes
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“A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
[Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]”
“A wounded heart needs aloof.”
Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
“A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live in it, there's no safer place in the world than its beating.”
Source: The Universe at Heartbeat
“A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
Source: Taggerung
“A wounded lion is still fiercer than a healthy wolf.”
“A wounded lion is still fiercer than a strong wolf.”
“A wounded person must examine the poverty of his or her untidy emotions in order to ascertain the archeological roots of their festering misery.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.”
“A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.”
“A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.”
“A wrestling match.. Yes, you could describe life that way."
So which side wins, I ask?
He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth.
"Love wins. Love always wins.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“A wretched disheartening result. And a little mouse shall lead them.”
“A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.”
Source: The Complete Works
“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakespeare. [By W. Dodd.]
“A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.”
Source: Ninety-three
“A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart. Meg Murry was my hero growing up. I wanted glasses and braces and my parents to stick me in an attic bedroom. And I so wanted to save Charles Wallace from IT.”
“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.”
“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”
“A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.”
Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.”
“A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.”
“A writer always writes.”
“A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“A writer can create a more just world in books by shining a light on that injustice.”
“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”
Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations
“A writer can do without food for a few hours but not without the sight of books.”
Source: On Writing Wonderfully: The Craft of Creative Fiction Writing
“A writer can fix poor mechanics, but a bad idea will always be a bad idea.”
Source: Heaven's Captives: A Psychological Horror Thriller
“A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.”
“A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him.”
Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982
“A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind.”
“A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.”
“A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.”
“A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.”
“A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.”
“A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.”
“A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“A writer creates wings of words and lets them fly in the sky of readers' minds.”
“A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.”
“A writer deserves a grand finale, a climax. Not this shit, not hovering in this purgatorial slowness, a fucked up astral projection experience peering down at the mess I've become.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“A writer does not [and should not] always agree with what his characters say or do in the book!”
“A writer does not belong to one village, one city, one town, or one country. A writer belongs to the world...”
“A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.”
“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.”
“a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.”
Source: Conversations with Nadine Gordimer
“A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.”
“A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.”
Source: A Burnt-Out Case
“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”