Writing Quote by Mike Philbin Download Open image ““The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”” — Mike Philbin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.” — Susie Smith Copy Share Image
“The best things about writing are the freedom to please yourself creatively, personal accomplishment and the journey of personal growth. The worst is that… — Ron Houston Copy Share Image
“I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
“Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests,… — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“We must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough… — Mark L Lloyd Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
“I'm so passionate about my writing, there's page-spunk pouring out of my fingertips.” — Mike Philbin 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
