Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#writ

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #writ




If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging, who both fits and doesn't fit into his life and his routine, to quote Guy Fieri, it is On Like Donkey Kong: swing the rope, jump the barrel, and save the princess.


Sarah Wendell


#romance #writing #life

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.


Flannery O'Connor


#experience

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.


Rabih Alameddine


#family #home #life #writing #family

Writing is an escape from life reading is living a different life.


Sofia Kennedy


#writing #life

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...


Haruki Murakami


#writing #short-story

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.


Shannon Hale


#writer

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.


Andy Rooney


#writer

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.


Alan Dean Foster


#writing #writer

Jika ingin menjadi seorang penulis pertama sekali kena membaca, kedua kena membaca, ketiga, membaca, keempat membaca dan kelima baru menulis.


A. Samad Said


#writer-quotes #writer

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.


Umberto Eco


#story-telling #storytelling #writer






back to top