Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 445
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 444
The act of a pro is to make it look easy. Fred Astaire doesn’t grunt when he dances to let you know how hard it is. If you’re good at it, you leave no fingerprints.
– Lillian Ross
Quotable 443
Go to where the silence is and say something.
– Amy Goodman
Quotable 442
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president.
– Václav Havel
Quotable 441
Writing is a craft in the way that carpentry is a craft: There’s art to it, sure, and a certain inspiration required of it, definitely, but for the most part you’re just sawing and sanding and getting dust in your eyes.
– Megan Garber
Quotable 440
I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.
– Ishmael Reed
Quotable 439
Being a writer is understanding how you can love your book, be willing to die for every word, think it’s perfect and yet at the same time wonder how far you’d have to fling your book into the sea so that the tide doesn’t drag it back.
– Meredith Ireland
Quotable 438
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
– Jackie Collins
Quotable 437
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
– Tom Clancy