
Know more about the exact origins though. This is supposed to be based on a fable from India. Wanted to make of the world, I could not agree more with the poet. Having been the 'justifiable' (I'm Hindu by birth, andĭon't really care about religion) target of righteous right-wingedĮvangelists in the US who argue about how they know exactly what God The moral is so apt in modern times, with religious disputes setting the Thinks of submitting! Anyway, all the versions I've heard before did not Just one of those masterpieces which everyone has heard and no one really “I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.( Poem #1179) The Blind Men and the Elephant It was six men of Indostan.

“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” -Anthony Powell.


“The less conscious one is of being ‘a writer,’ the better the writing.” -Pico Iyer.One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.” -Iris Murdoch You can't stop it.” -William Carlos Williams “Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.” -Shelby Foote.Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.” -Padget Powell “Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.” -Paul Rudnick.“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” -Thomas Mann.“Let's face it, writing is hell.” -William Styron.You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” -E.L. “Writing is like driving at night in the fog.“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” -E.L.“In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.” -Denise Levertov.“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.” -John Edgar Wideman.“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” -F.“Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig” -Stephen Greenblatt.Writing is my way of making other chances.” -Anne Tyler I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough” -Joy Williams “Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough.
