Levels Quote by Elizabeth Bowen Download Open image “[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.” — Elizabeth Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Levels Private life Should Too far Trying Work 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
“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path. You know… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Are you really an orphan? Yes, I am, said Portia a shade shortly. Are you? No, not at present, but I suppose it's a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Every love has a poetic relevance of its own; each love brings to light only what to it is relevant. Outside lies the junk-yard… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that,… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
We've all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
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