Aggression Quote by Ted Solotaroff

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

— Marilyn Hacker

“Writing too was a mighty consumer of energy, besides a task one often went to with reluctance - not solely on account of its…

— Frank Sargeson

Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable…

— Ted Solotaroff

There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

— Nadine Gordimer

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

— Philip Roth

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

“To these things do writers sink; and then the critics tell them that they “talk for effect”; and then the writers answer: “What the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by…

— George Orwell

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro