Best survival & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”

Ifs Writing Mean Passion Fun Water Pieces Tree Poet Survival Deeper Accomplishment Working It Climbing Puzzles Lyrical

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.”

People Writing Enough Survival Scary Scar

Author:William Gibson

“I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.”

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Author:Stephen King

“It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.”

Writing Self Today Christian Father Community Religious Principles Morality Survival Separation Self Control Evident Founding Governing

Author:David Barton

“I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.”

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Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell

“I personally believe the role of poets as poets (which is something different from our obligations as citizens, community members, humans) is to write poems. I believe this because I am quite sure poetry can do something no other form or writing, or human activity, can, at least not in such a powerful and distilled and undeniable way. And that we need this type of thinking for our survival as individuals and as a species.”

Thinking Writing Believe Different Individual I Believe Community Powerful Poet Survival Obligation

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.”

People Writing Important Black Survival Tradition Black People Voodoo

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy is an easy way to win over the reader. You're automatically more disposed to keep reading, thinking maybe, "I'll get another laugh or two." I think it's a survival instinct in me. I mean, you don't want to lose these guys within five or ten pages. You want them to keep going. I think to some extent it's a desperate measure that I throw out there, because a novel isn't a complete waste of time if it made you laugh.”

Thinking Writing Mean Real Guy Reading Winning Easy Novel Laughing Comedy Survival Instinct Real Life Desperate Keep Going Wasting Time

Author:Joshua Ferris

“When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I hadn't read before. So in that sense the category was useful to me. But it's not useful to me as I write. I don't sit down to write an African-American zombie story or an African-American story about elevators. I'm writing a story about elevators which happens to talk about race in different ways. Or I'm writing a zombie novel which doesn't have that much to do with being black in America. That novel is really about survival.”

People Writing Trying Different Kids Black Novel Survival Zombie

Author:Colson Whitehead

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”

Ifs Writing Book Enough Fighting Reading Chance Survival Increase Enough Chances

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.”

World Writing Mean Comfortable Survival Despite Surroundings Cruel World Respite

Book:The Long Road Home

Source: The Long Road Home

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”

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Author:Eudora Welty

“When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.”

Way Writing Long Stills Light Hair Survival Tasks Unity Fingers Metaphor Heavy Slips Thick Diverse Soup Attempting Simile Handful Fables Strands Coarse Unruly Diction Braids

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!”

“For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.”

People Writing Turns Survival My Family Atmosphere

Author:Gao Xingjian

“I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.”

Writing Wanted Written Survival Guides Zombie Answering Questions

Author:Max Brooks

“At eleven I was at the peak of my creative powers: I was writing stories and playlets, putting together poetryprojects. I was absorbed by my 'work.' At twelve I was no longer reading or writing, just counting off days and checking them off. I was interested in survival.”

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Author:Todd Solondz

“If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.”

Ifs Writing Book Care Survival Imbeciles

Author:Umberto Eco

“Every woman who writes is a survivor.”

Writing Survival Survivor

Author:Tillie Olsen

“One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.”

Want Writing Said Ideas Reason Certain Hurt Scene Survival Dignity Revenge Illumination Replay Ripeness Life Hurts

Author:Cynthia Ozick

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