Writing Quotes by Roman Payne

“Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.”

— Roman Payne

“A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite…

— Roman Payne

“Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I…

— Roman Payne

“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.”

— Roman Payne

“Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of…

— Roman Payne

“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it…

— Roman Payne

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues…

— Roman Payne

“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to…

— Roman Payne

“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When…

— Roman Payne

“I believe you can consider yourself a successful prose writer when the number of words you put on a page each day…

— Roman Payne

“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems…

— Roman Payne

“Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the…

— Roman Payne

“Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical…

— Roman Payne

“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries…

— Roman Payne

“When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write…

— Roman Payne

“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:…

— Roman Payne

“Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to…

— Roman Payne

“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one…

— Roman Payne