To sit down so often with nothing to say, -to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said, -is a power of which I will not violate my modesty by boasting; but I do not believe everyone has it.
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought, " able to go from point to point in an orderly...
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James J. Kilpatrick
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean — hell, I know that.
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Stephen King
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
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Patricia C. Wrede
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
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Kayla Rae Whitaker
More Quotes By Michael Kelahan
In a man's letters, you know, madam, his soul lies naked. His letters are only the mirror of his heart. Whatever passes within him is there shown undisguised in its natural progress; nothing is invented, nothing distorted; you see systems in their elements, you discover...
...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...
...your soul can never be long going to the fixed stars, where I intend to settle; or else you may find me in the milky way.
Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last? Know you, my best Mary, that I feel myself, in your absence, almost degraded to the level of the vulgar and impure. I feel their vacant,...
To sit down so often with nothing to say, -to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said, -is a power of which I will not violate my modesty by boasting; but I do not believe everyone...
