T Quotes
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“The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.”
“The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.”
“The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.”
“The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.”
“The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.”
“The writer's job is to tell the truth.”
Source: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
“The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her own satisfying meaning. The story is truly finished—and meaning is made—not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters the story and fills that little ambiguous space, completing the circuit, letting the power flow through.”
“The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.”
“The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”
Source: Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
“The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.”
“The writer's life seethes within but not without.”
Source: You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess
“The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.”
“The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.”
“The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.”
Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly
“The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.”
Source: Practicing History: Selected Essays
“The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art”
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art.”
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.”
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.”
“The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.”
“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.”
“The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.”
“The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.”
“The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?”
“The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.”
“The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out.”
“The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers.”
“The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.”
Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.”
Source: The Mulberry Tree
“The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.”
Source: Writing for story: craft secrets of dramatic nonfiction by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
“The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.”
Source: The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
“The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.”
Source: The Mulberry Tree
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
Source: The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].
“The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.”
“The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.”
“The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.”
“The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom.”
“The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.”
“The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved.”
“The writers could always do an about-face and change everything”
“The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941
“The writers job is like solving a puzzle, and finally arriving at a solution is a tremendous satisfaction.”
“The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.”
“The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.”
“The writers of religious scriptures and texts would have done humanity a grand service if they would have used just one sentence, in one of the pages out of the thousands, to support respectful and peaceful disagreement.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.”
“The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.”
“The writers secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.”
Source: Other Colors
“The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.”