Quotes About Writist

#1. Like a father with his daughter, the writist plays peek-a-boo with the world. His aim is to evoke that sweet smile, the one that says "i remember you. I am glad you are here again".

D.A. Botta

#2. I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct to propel yourself.

D.A. Botta

#3. God is not someone who can be tacked on to our lives.

Francis Chan

#4. Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

Hugh Prather

#5. I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

Peggy Lipton

#6. To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things.

D.A. Botta

#7. It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music?

D.A. Botta

#8. No matter how this world changes, you can survive.

Abi Ketner

#9. The trouble with a baby, for writists, is that they take away your useful melancholy, even the energy to invent some.

D.A. Botta

#10. If he was, somehow at the margin deficient, it was because the country did not rise to ask of him the performance of a thunderbolt. He gave what he was asked to give. And he leaves us (or "will leave") if not exactly bereft, lonely; lonely for the quintessential American. END.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#11. Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

D.A. Botta

#12. I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever pen it in this lifetime, for then the seeking ends; miserable is the day the adventure ends.

D.A. Botta

#13. He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn't work anymore. In fact, they'd never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world's more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Ann Brashares