Norah Wilson > Norah's Quotes

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.”
― Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

“So many cowboys....so little rope.”
― Sable Hunter

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King