Famous quotes by Writers

"I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I buy way too many books"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"But in the meantime, I became accustomed to the writing life, and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"If you commit a big crime, then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime, the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Abortion is either OK or it's not"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it"

Mitch Albom, Writer

"Part of courage is simple consistency"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive"

Harold Coffin, Writer

"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do"

Harold Coffin, Writer

"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment"

Harold Coffin, Writer

"Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls"

Harold Coffin, Writer

"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"To feel at home, stay at home"

Clifton Paul Fadiman, Writer

"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"The mark of fear is not easily removed"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow"

Ernest Gaines, Writer

"Let him who desires peace prepare for war"

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Writer

"When you re-read a classic, you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before"

Clifton Paul Fadiman, Writer

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

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