Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
Last update March 6, 2025.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled…" by Stephen King?
Stephen King 733
American author 1947Related quotes
“Personally, I would forgo any other comfort to drink clean water.”
Wilfred Thesiger
(1910–2003) British explorer
Source: The Life Of My Choice (1987), p. 153.
Musa al-Kadhim
(745–799) Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a renowned scholar
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 311.
General
Ann Coulter
(1961) author, political commentator
As if any gay man would drink nonbottled water Massachusetts Supreme Court abolishes capitalism! 2003-12-04 Townhall http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2003/12/04/massachusetts_supreme_court_abolishes_capitalism!/page/full/
2003
Viktor Schauberger
(1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Alick Bartholomew: The Schauberger Keys
“Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
It seems likely that the attribution to Twain is apocryphal. It is not listed as authentic on Twainquotes http://twainquotes.com/, and is not listed at all in either R. Ken Ramussen's The Quotable Mark Twain (1998) or David W. Barber's Quotable Twain (2002)
Misattributed
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
Mark Twain
(1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Notebook
Source: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 3 (p. 48)