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
Tag: want
Quotable 474
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 469
One of the first things I tell my classes is, “If you want to write, keep a low overhead.”
– Grace Paley
Quotable 460
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.
– Alice Munro
Quotable 452
The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.
– Arundhati Roy
Quotable 430
To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
– Tracy Kidder
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
Quotable 383
I want my poems to be wiser than I am, to know more about themselves than I do.
– John Hollander
Quotable 355
Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.
– William Zinsser
Quotable 259
Sometimes I think works of fiction should be unsatisfying. Because a story is not a sandwich. Some stories should leave you hungry.
– Charlie Jane Anders