T Quotes
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“The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.”
Source: Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces
“The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain.”
“The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.”
“The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.”
“The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.”
Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays
“The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.”
“The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”
Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
“The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The writer considers sayability before anything else.”
“The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.”
“The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.”
“The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding of good and evil. As he inflates his imagination he inflates his capacity for evil.”
“The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.”
“The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.”
“The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.”
Source: Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
“The writer dreams awake. The killer nightmares awake. (L’écrivain rêve éveillé. - Le tueur cauchemarde éveillé)”
“The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.”
“The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.”
Source: Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism
“The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.”
“The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.”
“The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.”
“The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.”
“The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.”
Source: Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture
“The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience”
“The writer has to be brave, I think.”
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”
Source: Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life
“The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.”
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
“The writer has to make pleasure for the reader - which, I think, is done by taking one's character's seriously and taking one's readers seriously -don't condescend or try to be tricky. Be a friend to your reader - I'd say that's a pretty good first step.”
“The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.”
“The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.”
“The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.”
“The writer, having lost his way in a gloomy forest, and being hindered by certain wild beasts from ascending a mountain, is met by Virgil, who promises to show him the punishments of Hell, and afterwards of Purgatory; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman Poet.”
“The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.”
“The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.”
“The writer identifies the thought behind every written word.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.”
Source: A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner
“The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
“The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.”
“The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.”
“The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.”
“The writer is a deep thinker and talented artist-painter. In her work “Iconography and Meditation” she expands the meaning that is understood by those who “write” or paint icons the world over. M Wilson”
Source: Iconography and Meditation: Icon Painting and their Secret Technique
“The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.”
“The writer is a kind of hawk; he goes round in the skies, constantly looking with his sharp eyes for the character that he can pick up with his claws. Sometimes he goes round hungry for a week, he cannot catch any characters; and sometimes characters rain on him like heavy rain.”
Source: The Beggar's Prophecy
“The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to take a few notes. You’re outside, but you can see things up close through your binoculars. Your job is to present clearly your viewpoint, your line of vision. Your job is to see people as they really are, and to do this, you have to know who you are in the most compassionate possible sense. Then you can recognize others.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops”
Source: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader
“The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.”
“The writer is all alone.”
“The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.”
“The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.”