#writers

The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas's fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it. ↗

— Josephine Tey

#change

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#disgusted #feminist #fine #guess #i

The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writers #writing #age

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#head #i #ideas #just #me

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers. ↗

— Elaine Paige

#because #had #hoping #i #i remember

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#forced #hell #own #special #their

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#artists #call #day #friends #fun

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#another #editor #get #give #go

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well. ↗

— Anne Rice

#each #know #list #look #new