Life Quote by Francis Alexander Durivage Download Open image “To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.” — Francis Alexander Durivage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Starvation Writing
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Writers quite often starve. And I'm mainly just writing critical prose and poetry, that's a formula for starvation. — Clive James Copy Share Image
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
“Writing can be a lifeline, expecially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your… — Micere Mugo Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times. — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by… — Francis Alexander Durivage Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
