License Quote by Jerzy Kosinski Download Open image “A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.” — Jerzy Kosinski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare License Novelists Poetic
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“Reality mixed in with the right dash of creative license is what works the best - when writing novels, at least!” — Mike Watson Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly for hours,… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes, bloody, bruised… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium.… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I was with Dre when he was just selling tapes. He didn't have a car, a license or a job. — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Can you understand why the Congress, most states and most cities refuse to pass legislation requiring the registration and licensing of any and all… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I have 3 dogs myself - I actually have a kennel license in order to do so. I love them so much I couldn't… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without… — Philip Alston Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Modern paintings often seem to have been made quickly, by comparison with the paintings of earlier centuries, and that seems to give us the… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
