Writing Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. A… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
