Wannabe Writer Quotes & Sayings

What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer? -And yet old Moses said: Thou shalt not kill. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You are successful if you are able to work on the kind of material that you want to - if your life conforms to your dreams, regardless of outside acceptance or acclaim. — James Franco

Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world. — Michael Meade

A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as 'an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed. — Andy Zaltzman

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul. — Ivan Turgenev

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art. — Naguib Mahfouz

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it. — Shannon A. Thompson

Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones. — Cormac McCarthy

Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric Earth. — Douglas Adams