A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
May 21, 2012
Quote of the Day: WH Auden
April 20, 2012
Quote of the Day: Russell Baker
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require any.
April 19, 2012
Quote of the Day: PG Wodehouse
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote simply for money. What makes a writer is that he likes writing. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
April 4, 2012
Quote of the Day: Charlotte Bronte
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master – something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.
April 3, 2012
Quote of the Day: Kurt Vonnegut
My relatives say that they are glad I’m rich, but that they simply cannot read me.
February 9, 2012
Quote of the Day: Ray Bradbury
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.
November 3, 2011
Quote of the Day: Margaret Atwood
Wanting to know an author because you like his work is like wanting to know a duck because you like paté.
July 21, 2011
Quote of the Day: Logan Pearsall Smith
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
June 24, 2011
Quote of the Day: Burton Rascoe
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.
