Category: Hooked On Quotes
Not A Bad Thing
“It’s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers – we’re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.”
— Neil Gaiman
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Find the Location
“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
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When It Happens
“The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away, that’s when this stuff comes.”
— David Remnick
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Odd Habits? Nah, Writer
“In the end, I am quite normal. I don’t have odd habits. I don’t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don’t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer’s block, all those things that we hear about writers.”
— Jose Saramago
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Paradox of Humanity
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.”
— Tim O’Brien
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More Is Needed
“A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Think & Act . . . Act & Think?
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
— Johann von Goethe
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Career of a Writer
“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
— Paulo Coelho
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Imagination & Precision
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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