Quote by Edward Gorey Download Open image ““He wrote it all down Zealously.”” — Edward Gorey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“He felt overwelmed when he thought of all the books he hadn't read, all the books he wanted to read, and all the books… — Kristine Grayson Copy Share Image
“He simply could not write a further word. Writer’s block, he thought. It happens to the most brilliant of writers.” — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image
“In his experience, anything really important never got written down, because by then people were too busy shouting.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in.... He now knows that the only words worth writing… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“It all comes down to the written word and just how comfortable I am writing them.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was grand in his convictions. He would stride forward to meet his own destruction.” — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because it accounts… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn’t have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.” — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
