I don’t know anything I’ve done for the human race, except possibly entertain a minute segment of it from time to time, and I can’t compare myself with Goethe, because I don’t know what he did for the race, either.
– Harold Ross
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 495
Creativity, like most interesting things, resists easy generalizations.
– Jonah Lehrer
Quotable 494
You say the sentence or you write the sentence again and again until the tuning fork is still.
– Martin Amis
Quotable 493
If you’re a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
– Tim Maleeny
Quotable 492
I have seen enough writers get stuck by not being vigilant enough about the tendency of their own work to repeat itself.
– J.H. Prynne
Quotable 491
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
– Mary Oliver
Quotable 490
Inactivity is more detrimental than wasting your time on something that doesn’t go anywhere because it will lead to something else.
– Jon Favreau
Quotable 489
I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into the sandbox so that later I can build castles.
– Rachel Stirling
Quotable 488
I’m not an extraordinary worker, I’m an extraordinary daydreamer.
– Blaise Cendrars
Quotable 487
The trick is not to become a writer, it is to stay a writer.
– Harlan Ellison