Top 1200 Aspiring Writers Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which I think is a kind of human miracle.

I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector. I also love a lot of American experimental writers and surrealist European writers. But perhaps The Persian Book of Kings was the greatest influence - I encourage people to look at it. There is such a wealth of incredible stories.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.

A word of advice for all the aspiring drag queens out there: be resourceful.

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

I get to meet writers, and I love writers.

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.

Aspiring to a depth of awareness of the sacred whole has always been the path to wisdom and grace.

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

I've experienced everything any aspiring artist could ever want.

Why are you uncomfortable with the supernaturalist worldview of the biblical writers? Evangelicals don't want to just say, "Well, the inspired writers were wrong about some of their beliefs about the spiritual world and its inhabitants." That really doesn't work in a confessional situation! So instead we come up with excuses and interpretations that allow us to remake the biblical writers in our own post-Enlightenment image. I understand that impulse, but it's not honest.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Real beauty comes from confidence and being who you are, not aspiring to look or be someone else.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's not necessarily their rap.

Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn't now.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite.

I am always open to the idea of helping young and aspiring cricketers.

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.

I want all the aspiring models out there to know that it's definitely not just a pretty face that matters!

During my modelling days, I would hear there's no dearth of female models aspiring to be actors.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.

while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

If you're an aspiring wrestler, Bret Hart is usually at the top of the list for inspiration.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.

I think what makes you feel so connected with certain writers isn't a matter of autobiographical detail, but that the emotions are real. The way some writers are able to channel themselves through the form.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

For me, as a 14-year-old aspiring to be in the NBA, I wanted to hear from players.

I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book takes me about two years to write, so there's no way I am depriving myself of reading during that time. Another thing is that reading other writers is continually inspiring - reading great writers reminds you how hard you have to work.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

A very good side playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.