Gifted Writers Quotes

#1. The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

Italo Calvino

#2. Many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.

Marlene Steinberg

#3. I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Mandy Patinkin

#4. Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth.

Steven Pinker

#5. Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

George Lucas

#6. We started out making men in about the state of mind which I suppose created them in the first place
we had run out of kinds of women, and had to think of something else.

Shirley Jackson

#7. The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding.

E.L. Doctorow

#8. The life, vigour, and comfort of our spiritual life depend much on our mortification of sin.

John Owen

#9. There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

George Orwell

#10. If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

Cat Power

#11. He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#12. Character is what is hidden deep, shows up in the worst of times, be it good or bad, and reflects the heart of a man.

Robin M. Bertram

#13. ... evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.

Karen Swallow Prior

#14. On the path of truth, all religions are but one, race and color are irrelevant, and there is no difference between men and women.

Ostad Elahi

#15. There's a light, I still see it
There's a hand still holding me
Even when I don't believe it

Danny Gokey

#16. Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#17. A sensation goes through Sherlock,part fear, part thrill:it is curious how danger has two sides to it; how it can excite you and scare you at the same time.

Shane Peacock

#18. J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Donald Ray Pollock

#19. Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

Mel Brooks

#20. For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.

Cidney Swanson

#21. I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

George Carlin

#22. I'm not talented or gifted. I'm a committed, meticulous workaholic. The only reason I succeed is because I refuse to fail.

Jessie Snow

#23. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Seneca The Younger