What Else? Writers Quotes! And stuff.

[anirbas]

*Please, feel free to share any of your favored, or otherwise, writers quotes here! They don't have to be your favorite quotes.
It can be quotes by other writers that get your goat!
And thanks millions, in advance, for sharing, folks,
if you choose to. These are several I just read
that I found either, funny or profound, in consideration
of the craft of writing.*

~*~


After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.
Heather Armstrong, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

[dawness]

whoa, interesting section!

guide me here , sabs. i might be in the wrong thread, LOL.


this one i like...

"To love a person is to learn the song
That is in their heart,
And to sing it to them
When they have forgotten."

Author Unknown

[anirbas]

Dawn! Thanks for contributing, for sharing...
The quote you shared is profound
and belongs here, as well
as anywhere else...
Got more? Nir.

[anirbas]

'Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.'

T S Eliot

[not sure i agree with old T, on that...as it would seem,
no matter where i go or what i write when i get there,
i cannot escape my personality...LOL...what about you?]

~*~


'Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.'

Iris Murdoch

[ggglgggl...this one's just way to funny not to share]

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'Writers don't need love; all they require is money.'

John Osborne

[roflmao at this one]

~*~


'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'

Virginia Woolf

[ah, Virgie, thy words are both profound and wise]

~*~

'Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.'

Ernest Hemingway



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'Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[tell it like it is, Gabe!]

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'Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.'

Cyril Connolly

[ggglgggl...and that's the cold, hard truth]

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'Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.'

Francoise Sagan

[sounds like a writer to me...]

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'Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was stabbed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire; then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer -and if so, why?

Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House

[and this one sent me over the edge and cracked me up laughing so hard, i read it over and over and over, again...]

~*~


'Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.'

J B Priestley

[the old practice makes perfect addage holds as well
with a writing instrument, as it does for a musical instrument!]

~*~


'The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.'

Somerset Maugham

[be proud to be a so-called and self-professed poet!
didn't you just hear Somerset? Poetry is THE crown
of literature...I couldn't have said it better myself...
Thanks, Somers! this hat is off to you!]

[bronwyn]

Sabrina, these were so wonderful to read. Each interesting, and I could see your laughing, and indeed they are great picks you found to share, every single one them....all great.

[anirbas]

*BRONWYN!*

Delightful surprise to find you here, mi compadre!
Glad you enjoyed the picks...My newest hobby...
Collecting writer's quotes that appeal to my warped
sense of humor and poetical justice...You know me...
Being yakky in my old age, I couldn't resiste adding
my own thoughts after the last set of quotes...Hey!
Just a thought...Bring some of your favorite quotes here...
And leave some poetry, too, while you're near...LOL...
Really a treat to find you here...Gave me the warm fuzzies!
Thanks and take care of you for me! Sabrina.

[Bronwyn]

I love you, Sabrina


I will stop by more often, k

your my soul sister



8-)Bronwyn

[DavidMc]

I concur with Sabrina ...

You have much to share Bronwyn.

Respect, David.

[anirbas]

I love you, too, Bronwyn!

Stop by anytime you feel like it.
Be proud to have you, anytime!

~*~

Hi, Chief! Hope you're having a good Monday...
I gotta go...Running into the day to pick up Ivy...
Just decadently crawled out of bed...Sweet dreams, you!

[anirbas]

'Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was stabbed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire; then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer -and if so, why?

Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House

[anirbas]

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem." ~Robert Penn Warren, "The Themes of Robert Frost," Hopwood Lecture, 1947

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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran


Ink runs from the corners of my mouth
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry," Reasons for Moving, 1968


There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves, 1962 interview on BBC-TV, based on a very similar statement he overheard around 1955


Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost


Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951


A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valéry

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[anirbas]

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
~George Sand, 1851

I'd like to dedicate this one to our on-site "just readers".
They are the invisible backbone of the Seasons...
And "they" are reading, folks...Check out the amount of views
on just about any thread by any poet...We've got a reading fan club, poets! Thanks a million, readers! Your time spent in here is greatly appreciated!

[soulfir3]

" To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perception...The act of art is a tool for extended consciousness." -- Robert Irwin

[anirbas]

Grrrreat one! Thanks for sharing, Soul!

[anirbas]

ggglgggl...thanks for sharing, Soul!

*Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch Cabell

*The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. ~W.B. Yeats

*Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ~Salvatore Quasimodo

*You can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino

[hmmm...have to disagree with that one, Quentin...Perhaps,
Quentin can't write poetry on the computer...LOL...Dodges
flying things from Quentin's desk...]

[anirbas]

"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."

~Margaret Atwood.

[anirbas]

"Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay;
it does not often visit groups of citizens
sitting down to be literary together,
and would appal them if it did."

~Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

[DavidMc]

This is taken from the recent movie "The History Boys"...

Mrs. Lintott: And you, Rudge? How do you define history?
Rudge: Can I speak freely without being hit?
Mrs. Lintott: You have my protection.
Rudge: How do I define history? Well it's just one fucking thing after another, isn't it?

[anirbas]

gglgggl...oh, my stars...that sooooooooo hit my funny bone...
hahahahahahahaha...good one...got more? ;D

[anirbas]

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry.
~Abbe Yeux-verdi

~*~

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not,
as much alone as a man on his death bed.

~W.B. Yeats

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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

~Richard Rosen

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
~James Branch Cabell

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A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
~Robert Frost

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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
~Percy Byshe Shelley

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ever been kidnapped
by a poet
if i were a poet
i'd kidnap you
put you in my phrases and meter....
~Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr., "kidnap poem"

[DavidMc]

"a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"

Virginia Woolf

[glenn]

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
~~John Le Carre

[anirbas]

“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
(American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

[anirbas]

“All that is best in the great poets of all countries
is not what is national in them,
but what is universal”.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[Sam]

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen"

Frank LLoyd Wright

Keep thinking and believing!!!

Peace,

Sam

[anirbas]

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”

~Socrates
Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC

[vulture]

"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."

~Socrates
Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC

[anirbas]

"The smell of ink is intoxicating to me -
others may have wine, but I have poetry." ~Terri Guillemets

[anirbas]

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast
possession of definition." ~Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

[anirbas]

“Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.”
~Gustave Flaubert