I'm a writer.
Rather than bore you with the endlessly-interchangeable aspects of my life compared to the millions of other MySpace denizens, I will instead provide some quotes. They are about writing, mostly, but also about love, life, and what should, in the end, always be the most important things we possess - our souls, our integrity, our compassion.
Enjoy.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning . . . Every day I find something creative to do with my life.†- Miles Davis
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say." - Raymond Chandler
"A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge." - Friedrich Dürrenmatt
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." - Joan Didion
"If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author." - Neil Gaiman
"Authors who never give you something to disagree with never give you anything to think about." - Michael LaRocca
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away." - Raymond Chandler
"The only time I know that something is true is the moment I discover it in the act of writing." - Jean Malaquais
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."
- Anais Nin
"Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw." - Jules Feifer
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." - Anais Nin
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Raymond Chandler
"One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them." - Tobias Wolff
"One nice thing about putting the thing away for a couple of months before looking at it is that you start appreciate your own wit. Of course, this can be carried too far. But it's kind of cool when you crack up at a piece of writing, and then realize you wrote it. I recommend this feeling." - Steven Brust
"The novel is an event in consciousness. Our aim isn't to copy actuality, but to modify and recreate our sense of it. The novelist is inviting the reader to watch a performance in his own brain." - George Buchanan
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love - that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.†- William Gibson
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin
"Security is mostly a superstition; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure... or nothing." - Helen Keller
"In a little while, we shall all be dead; therefore, let us behave as though we were dead already." - Raymond Chandler
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas
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