Brief moments Quote by Erica Jong Download Open image “Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.” — Erica Jong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brief moments Doubters Moments Self Time Torture Writing
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor of the truth. ...This is what a writer does: his life is a maelstrom of lying. Embellishment is his focal point. This is what we do to please others. This is what we do in order to flee… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share
You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos 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
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
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Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander together for… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image