Writing Quote by David Mitchell

“I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success.”

— Graham Greene

“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring…

— Karen Armstrong

“Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.”

— Irving Stone

“Writers are made -- forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities -- over the course of many, many moons.”

— Chuck Wendig

“Other priests, he knew, found an intense pleasure in the raw, salty dialect of peasant conversation. They picked up pearls of wisdom and experience…

— Morris L. West

“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when…

— Chuck Wendig

“politicians.’ It is much easier to live with the fantasy, because the fantasy gives meaning to the suffering. Priests discovered this principle thousands of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.”

— Yefon Isabelle

“You are missing a key element to the story. Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed…

— Amy Harmon

“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Writers are archeologists of themselves.”

— Vicki Grove