All Quotes

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
‐‐ Hannah More

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
‐‐ Jose Marti

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
‐‐ Sai Baba

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
‐‐ Charles Kettering

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
‐‐ Dorothea Brande

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
‐‐ Juan Goytisolo

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
‐‐ Vita Sackville-West

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.
‐‐ Joanna Kerns

The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
‐‐ Suzan-Lori Parks

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
‐‐ Jonathan Coe

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
‐‐ Andrew Davies

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
‐‐ Aharon Appelfeld

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

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

The writer is all alone.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
‐‐ Joan Didion

The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
‐‐ Joseph Stalin

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
‐‐ E. L. Doctorow

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.
‐‐ Charles R. Jackson

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.
‐‐ Dave Morris

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
‐‐ John Steinbeck

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.
‐‐ John Updike

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
‐‐ Simone de Beauvoir

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.
‐‐ Salvatore Quasimodo

The writer of 'The Red Road,' Aaron Guzikowski, deserves the credit. The fact that the dialogue is so understated is what makes this show so appealing, especially as an actor.
‐‐ Martin Henderson

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
‐‐ Flannery O'Connor

The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.
‐‐ Taiye Selasi

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.
‐‐ Eric Fellner

The writer's curse is that the more you fall in love with the work you're doing, the more I think it shows.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.
‐‐ Arthur Slade

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
‐‐ James A. Baldwin

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
‐‐ Vikas Swarup

The writer's job is to let the books speak for themselves eventually.
‐‐ Dean Bakopoulos

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
‐‐ Paul de Man

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
‐‐ Barbara W. Tuchman

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be.
‐‐ Jason Gann

The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk