Every writer is an iron-monger that melts down old junk into new steel.
– Austin O’Malley
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Quotable 389
Fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.
– Dorothy Allison
Quotable 369
I think I’m an okay writer, but a very good storyteller.
– James Patterson
Quotable 366
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
– Anaïs Nin
Quotable 347
A cool thing about being a writer is it allows you to balance megalomaniacal resentment that your brilliance hasn’t received its due against unrelenting certainty that you are absolutely worthless.
– Saladin Ahmed
Quotable 329
A writer is a descendant of other writers.
– Octavio Paz
Quotable 297
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
– John Steinbeck
Quotable 192
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
– Dean Koontz
Fiction: An Ever-Present Day in the Woods
“You have come at an excellent time, Mr. Geduld, as I am about to complete this painting.” He shook hands with the writer. “Please have a seat and you may observe. I trust that will be useful for your book.”
“Indeed it will, Mr. Truitt, and let me thank you again for this opportunity.”
Truitt smiled. “The opportunity is mine, Mr. Geduld. To be included in a book about the great painters of our day will be quite the honor.”
“I believe the chapter about the life and work of Peter Bascomb Truitt will be of the greatest interest, sir. Are you painting this still life with your particular method of merely glancing at the canvas?”
“I am, as I will now demonstrate.”
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Quotable 88
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
– Joseph Heller