Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal. Timothy Egan
About This Quote

Barbara Bush, the former First Lady of the United States, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92. She is best remembered for her keen interest in reading and her support of literacy. In a statement, President Barack Obama called Mrs. Bush a “remarkable woman whose life set a powerful example of service and kindness.” The former First Lady was also known for her love of dogs.

After her husband George W. Bush left office, Mrs. Bush wrote a children’s book about their pet Millie, who inspired people to care for dogs as family members.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. - Sylvia Plath
  2. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury
  3. The road to hell is paved with adverbs. - Stephen King
  4. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King
  5. The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But... - Stephen King
More Quotes By Timothy Egan
  1. Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing...
  2. A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.
  3. A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.
  4. I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)
  5. Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized, " Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a...
Related Topics