quotes about Writing Life

last updated: November 28, 2023

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
-- Robert Lowell

Source : Robert Lowell (2017). “New Selected Poems”, p.145, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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“A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.”
“I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”
“Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.”
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

Source : "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.
“Enjoy your life and put a smile on your face, no matter how hard it may seem.”

Source : FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Dec 28, 2012
“Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.”
“It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.”
“She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger brother. "You don't think she can force us? We are speaking of the same mother, correct? Small frame, enormous will?”
“The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.”
“The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.”