Literary Quotes

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then more

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and more

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner more

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took more

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day more

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.

Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.

This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a more

This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.