“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
As quoted in Stories Behind the Hymns That Inspire America: Songs That Unite Our Nation (2003) by Ace Collins, p. 36.
“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.”
Rod Serling (1924–1975) American screenwriter
The Rod Serling bio page on the Internet Movie DataBase.
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“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) art historian
E. H. Gombrich (1962), quoted in: Robert Maxwell Young. Mind, Brain, and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century, 1970. p. 101.
“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) American and French sculptor
“The great artist takes what he needs.”
Kenneth Clark (1903–1983) Art historian, broadcaster and museum director
Source: Civilisation (1969), Ch. 5: The Hero as Artist
“The writer needs good works—good literary ones”
Dana Gioia (1950) American writer
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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)
Larry Correia (1977) American fantasy writer
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