#rite

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ↗

— Anais Nin

#say #unable #writer

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#experience

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. ↗

— Mark Twain

#determination #horse #perseverance #spirited #perseverance

It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say "Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music? ↗

— D.A. Botta

#success #writer #writing #writist #life

What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about. ↗

— Julie Wright

#writers #writing #writing-life #life

Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#writers-on-writing #writing #life

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . . ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#writers-quotes #writing-life #life

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. ↗

— Janet Wallach

#history #writers #life

I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it. ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#marguerite #tyler #life

We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life