“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
— George Orwell
Category: Hooked On Quotes
Serious Writers
“You should always keep people in your life who won’t let you take yourself so seriously.”
— Jon Acuff
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Animating of the Writer
“Seriously though, it’s only by drawing on his or her own life and emotions that a writer animates fiction.”
—Louisa Treger
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Profession of Writer
“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.”
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Uncertain Territory
“The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory – and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place – the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.”
— Nicole Krauss
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Social Skills of a Writer…?
“You know you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.”
— Anthony Minghella
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Mined My Soul
“It’s not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a profound effect on the way I see the world. They have mined my soul. They’ve made me a better person and therefore a more empathetic writer.”
— Julianna Baggott
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Character Laugh
“Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!”
— Luigi Pirandello
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Beginning-Writer’s Misfortune
“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.”
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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No Self-Doubt—Best
“As a writer, you have to believe you’re one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.”
— Jo Nesbo
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