E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Every writer has to find their own way into writing.”
“Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they dont, because youre a pain the arse, youve lost.”
“Every writer has to write his speech.”
“Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.”
“Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”
“Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft.”
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
“Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.”
“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
“Every writer is a writer of the generation before.”
“Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.”
Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.”
“Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.”
“Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.”
“Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.”
Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque.”
“Every writer knows that when you're imitating somebody - you know, you're sounding like Faulkner - you're doing pretty good, but your life in Hoboken isn't Faulkneresque. So you get that kind of shortfall between the actual experience of the writer and the things he's hungry to express and the voice itself.”
“Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?”
Source: Writing is Work
“Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!”
“Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it.”
“Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.”
“Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!”
“Every writer must have a chip of ice in his heart.”
“Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.”
Source: A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves
“Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.”
“Every writer owes something to a particular tradition he/she grew up in. But no serious writer - other than the militantly nationalist ones - would reduce his/her domain of influence to a single tradition. Furthermore, historical breaks are so common and large in Europe that there are ruptures in every tradition which then connect the same generations across national borders. Younger Eastern European writers, for instance, have more in common with other writers of the same age in Europe, than with the previous, communist-era generations in their own countries.”
“Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.”
“Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points.”
“Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.”
“Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls”
Source: Conversations with William Styron
“Every writer wants a literary agent.
I wanted you.”
Source: The Book of Confessions
“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.”
Source: Writing in an Age of Silence
“Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.”
“Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.”
“Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.”
“Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.”
Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays
“Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.”
“Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward”
“Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.”
“Every X must shake the fibers of nature.”
“Every yarn contains someone’s truth. Don’t ever disregard someone else’s perspective.”
Source: Songlines
“Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.”
“Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.”
“Every year adds another layer to the story of who we are. Life is not a straight path, but a winding road of experiences, each curve teaching us something new. The future is a canvas, and I am ready to fill it with meaning and purpose. Today I don't just celebrate adding an year, but lessons learnt in the quiet moments between. The passing of time is inevitable, but how we choose to fill that time defines us, how we live it shapes who we become. Today, I am grateful for where I stand and hopeful for where I'll go.”
“Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we sometimes forget about what it really means - that we strive for a world without war, a society where we respect and help our neighbors, a place where we protect and uplift our most in need. This isn't a phrase we should live by for one day or one month. It's a set of values that must bond and motivate us every day.”
“Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.”
“Every year everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side
is salvation”
Source: New and selected poems
“Every year fewer and fewer words, and they range of conciousness always a little smaller.”
Source: 1984