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28c76d4 "Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life." -- kafka life writers writing Ernst Pawel
1fb0bc7 In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her perverse ability to imagine anything that in this instance Ruth failed to imagine the obvious) imagination writers John Irving
902eecf Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had. dancers musicians writers writing-groups Ursula K. Le Guin
22523a2 It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. self-deception truth writers writing Iris Murdoch
15b4e54 "That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action. fiction-writing pulp pulp-fiction writers writing Cornell Woolrich
26a91be New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was still some exotic pet kept in the corner of the publishing world--throw some kibble at it, watch it dance on its little leash, oh quite cute, it definitely won't kill us in the night. new-york writers Gillian Flynn
cc1a739 Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to come away with the most important detail of all. She could never identify the murderer; she could barely describe him. She'd made a point of not looking at him! writers John Irving
cdfdb65 Ruth Cole was a novelist; novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing. planning writers John Irving
f24ce67 People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words. influence james-baldwin words writers Edward P. Jones
fac1ad8 Since language is the only tool with which writers can reflect and shape a culture, it must be transformed into art. Language is not a limitation on the art of literature; it is a glorification. It has been the scaffolding inside which nations and philosophies have been built, and the language of literature has added the ornamental pediment by which the culture is remembered. language legacy literature writers writing E.L. Konigsburg
ee6160b Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good. books dashiell-hammett potboilers quality sanctuary william-faulkner writers Lillian Hellman
dea0fbd Business or profession?' 'I guess you'd call me a writer.' No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest. writers Ray Bradbury
3dc0d4b She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. writers David Benioff
65d4f15 "An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world artists emotion growth life revelation spirituality writers writing James Baldwin
543a216 Seventies macho was both a look - moustache, jeans, leather jacket - and an attitude - cool, heartless, virile - that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion. seventies-macho writers Christopher Bram
97b4447 Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction. gay winnie-the-pooh writers Christopher Bram
81b858f Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn't worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys. gay writers Christopher Bram
3d7d90c An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'. gay writers Christopher Bram
43daaf0 Trust the tale, not the teller. writers Christopher Bram
099414d There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. gay second-rate writers Christopher Bram
68c5046 A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one. writers Christopher Bram
a15b9cb Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life. writers Christopher Bram
81b223f A disproportionate number of stories are love stories - and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love? love-stories writers Christopher Bram
f9031f4 Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not yet ready to come out. ginsberg writers Christopher Bram
fac752f Like many writers, I lived inside of books as a child. childhood reading writers Roxane Gay
440d8ed Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White's strengths are sex, art and - sometimes - love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other's domain. gore-vidal writers Christopher Bram
fd7bb52 "It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment. Our American heirs may find it incredible, as most foreigners do right now, that a nation would want to enforce as a law something which sounds more like a dream, which reads as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." How could a nation with such a law raise its children in an atmosphere of decency? It couldn't--it can't. So the law will surely be repealed soon for the sake of children." constitution first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-the-press literary-freedom literature writers writing Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4a824e2 Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on... inspiration inspire writers Matthew Pearl
ce352d1 One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me. imagination storytelling what-ifs writers writing Madeleine L'Engle
5889cab If the historian will submit himself to his material instead of trying to impose himself on his material, then the material will ultimately speak to him and supply the answers. writers writing Barbara W. Tuchman
7474937 Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems. bad-review writers Hanif Kureishi
1fe2db6 These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves. writers Matthew Pearl
40aa0c2 We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves. self-discovery writers writers-on-writing writing Jane Yolen
c93507f "A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people." edmund-white gay writers Christopher Bram
678ad7a Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal. gay writers Christopher Bram
6c834ac She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before. creative-writing writers writing-process zen Robert M. Pirsig
dd6c510 Once they got into the idea of seeing directly for themselves they also saw there was no limit to the amount they could say. It was a confidence building assignment too, because what they wrote, even though seemingly trivial, was nevertheless their own thing, not a mimicking of someone else's. nothing-to-say practice writers writing-craft writing-process Robert M. Pirsig
d7e1339 Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual. gay-neoghbourhoods writers Christopher Bram
0e2b81c Everybody is Other in Maupin. gay other writers Christopher Bram
db92f40 In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up. writers Christopher Bram
9ad87e1 Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock). writers Christopher Bram
4a94181 Didn't he know that heterosexuals needed to breed so homosexuals could even exist? gay writers Christopher Bram
4706689 Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books - it was the best reason for being homosexual, it and love. liberation promiscuity writers Christopher Bram
3a69eda The problem of self-loathing isn't new. What's new is the idea that it's the people with the history of greatest injustice who have the greatest right to be heard, and that the time has come for the arts not just to make room for them but to be dominated by them. representation writers writing Sigrid Nunez
b1e163a Det var nastan som att upptacka en forfattare man inte last, fast man stoter i och for sig hela tiden pa forfattare som man inte har last medan det ar mycket sallsynt, atminstone i vuxen alder, att man plotsligt hittar en stor popartist som har gett ut massor av bra skivor. Oftast ar det fordomar snarare an okunnighet som gor att man missar stora artister, och fordomar ar svara att gora sig av med (det ar ju sa roligt att fa dem bekraftade). music pop prejudice records writers Nick Hornby
a725221 My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own. kings white-knight wool writers Delia Sherman
fb2c7dd You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett readers writers Jimmy Buffett
528b819 I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents have fallen away at my bidding. I have spied upon the misdeeds of the mighty and witnessed the nobility of the meek. I have bent so low over sleepers in their beds that they might have felt my breath on their faces. I have seen their dreams. characters lives people writers Diane Setterfield
0c01090 The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. writers Michael Cunningham
f226234 We have a rich literature. But sometimes it's a literature too ready to be neutralized, to be incorporated into the ambient noise. This is why we need the writer in opposition, the novelist who writes against power, who writes against the corporation or the state or the whole apparatus of assimilation. We're all one beat away from becoming elevator music. novelists opposition revolution writers writing Don DeLillo
241e2f7 She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work. truth writers Jeanette Winterson
d502830 ?No escribe uno acaso para entenderse mejor a si mismo y al mundo? escritura writers Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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