Challenges Quote by Amitava Kumar

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

What I am saying, I suppose, is that you write as if everyone is dead. Then you face the music. I don't know any…

— Lynn Freed

“Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles…

— Isabel Lopez

“First learn to write as if you were already dead and then you will learn to write as if you were still alive.”

— Niccolo Tucci

I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.

— Fran Lebowitz

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no…

— Nadine Gordimer

There is no beginning that is a blank page,

— Amitava Kumar

The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This…

— Alice Sebold

When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll…

— Carl Hiaasen

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find.

— Natasha Bedingfield

“As I stare at the blank page, I am at once awash inwords but unable to find the ones I want to use.”

— Carrie Ryan