Quote for Today: Frank McCourt
Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You’ll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I’m still …
Quote for Today: Alfred Kazin
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others’ minds. —Alfred Kazin
Quote for Today: Debasish Mridha
Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. ― Debasish Mridha
Quote for Today: Paul Auster
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after …
Quote for Today: Anne Lamott
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let’s think of reverence …
Quote for Today: Gilles Deleuze
Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing or exhausted life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with …
Quote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put …
Quote for Today: Lee Bontecou
The little pencil is a magic box… You can take a piece of paper and walk anywhere. —Lee Bontecou
Quote for Today: Mark Helprin
I wrote a great deal of a novel, Winter’s Tale, on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then …