Crafts Quote by Gordon Lish

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

— Kathy Acker

In a way all writers are writing against death, because writing is an attempt to defy the passage of time, to refuse to let…

— Elif Batuman

“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and…

— John Updike

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

— Roland Barthes

And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but,…

— Moshe Kasher

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all…

— Paul Valery

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the…

— James Russell Lowell

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

— Terry Goodkind

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Leaders fight hard wars against injustice and unfairness. They believe that the truth is a weapon; when triggered, the lie dies.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

— William Congreve