Writing Quote by David Gustafson Download Open image ““Satirists are merely impatient obituary writers.”” — David Gustafson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Journalists of late seem too eager to change the world in various ways; the point is to describe it, accurately and carefully.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“I used to read the obituaries to gloat over all the people I've outlived, but now I don't think it matters, we all live… — Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold Copy Share Image
The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
“Lazy people need someone to depend on. Without that, they are condemned to live out their days in a dreary anticipation of death.” — Bi Feiyu Copy Share Image
“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he… — Mark Grenier Copy Share Image
“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.” — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“The most baffling mystery about American democracy is why putting such a brilliant idea into practice seems to attract all the wrong people.” — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
“In this brutal world of incessantly exploding sound effects, pubescent song lyrics and banal advertisements appealing to the lowest common denominator, the trick is… — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
“Totalitarians never cease trying to rewrite history to their their own liking, but history is a stubborn old bastard that always outlives these feeble… — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
“If you want to feel important and indispensable, read a story to the child on your lap.” — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
“If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.” — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
“Voter NOUN a paranoid schizophrenic who believes the voices promising them an alternate future are real.” — David Gustafson Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
