Clear Quote by Walter Savage Landor

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

— Marcel Proust

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

— Natalia Ginzburg

As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.”

— Kamil Ali

Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains –…

— John Muir

One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for…

— Henri Nouwen

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere…

— Jean Rhys

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and…

— Rachel Cusk

All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure;…

— John Ruskin