Activity Quote by Jane Gardam

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.

— Joseph Brodsky

“You've gone all red. It's cooking over a hot stove. That's why I've never cultivated the art. It simply ruins the complexion. I'm terribly…

— Winifred Watson

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

— Julian Barnes

“Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really unhappy, but worse, who are neither…

— Eugène Ionesco

“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of Mrs Brown…

— Virginia Woolf

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.

— Jane Smiley

“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. R. W. EMERSON.”

— Mary Wilder Tileston

“Sometimes a woman has experienced too much life to have any blush left in her cheeks, but the man who puts it there is…

— dannika dark

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

— Neil Young

“Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion, but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman’s face.”

— Alyscia Cunningham

“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Why do I write today? The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentities stirs me to it: colored women day workers- old and…

— William Carlos Williams