top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up."
Standard
Customized
More
"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."
Author Name
Personal Development
"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love."
Love
"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America."
Art
"And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter."
Art
"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
Art
"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road."
Life
"There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else."
Life
"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."
Time
"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic."
Mind
"Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up."
Writing
"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."
Acting
bottom of page