“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.”
As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126
Context: The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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Anaïs Nin278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist
“You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Interview with Herbert Mitgang, "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles," The New York Times (22 April 1984)
Context: You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Geling Yan (1958) Chinese writer and screenwriter
Source: "Turning Loss into Beauty: The Tragedies of Geling Yan" in The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB930264290705115630 (25 June 1999)
P. L. Travers (1899–1996) Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
As quoted in The New York Times (2 July 1978)
“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
“A painter can leave you with nothing left to say. A writer leaves you with everything to say.”
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
'Georg Christoph Lichtenberg', p. 405
Essays and reviews, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time (2007)
