Art Quote by Chad Harbach

“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each…

— Chad Harbach

“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art, the way Melville had, each…

— Chad Harbach

“After those four years, he returned to the Midwest. He'd turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write a novel,…

— Chad Harbach

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words. Words are…

— J.R. Moehringer

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“No writer should be the same as another, that’s not art.”

— Therese Anne Fowler

“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be a writer.”

— Paul Marlowe

“Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.”

— Jarod Kintz

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer