Tomasky Bio Quotes & Sayings

First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then there must be the conception of what it can be and an absolute conscience as unchanging as the standard meter in Paris, to prevent faking. Then the writer must be intelligent and disinterested and above all he must survive. Try to get all these things in one person and have him come through all the influences that press on a writer. The hardest thing, because time is so short, is for him to survive and get his work done. — Ernest Hemingway,

Do a strong work meditation all day. You won't be as exhausted as everyone else because you have been gaining a kind of internal power from your work. — Frederick Lenz

A boy with a story must write. — Peter Manseau

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? — Andrea Dworkin

Toby's nose was very red, and his eye-lids were very red, and he winked very much, and his shoulders were very near his ears and his legs were very stiff, and altogether he was evidently a long way upon the frosty of cool. — Charles Dickens

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left. — Jay Leno

I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are? — Kate McGahan

The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories. — Vishwas Mudagal

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you. — Mike Lowry

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. — Thomas Cochrane

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. — Thomas Gray

I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. — Raymond Chandler

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder - the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly? — Edith Wharton