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Clearly, she was enjoying herself to see that woman hurt. It was nothing she had desired. Nor did it seem as if she could control it, this inhuman sweet sensation to see another human being squirming. It hit her like a stone, the knowledge that there is pleasure in hurting. A strong three-dimensional pleasure, an exclusive masculine delight that is exhilarating beyond all measure. And this too is God's gift to man? She wondered. ~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Ama Ata Aidoo
One had said, 'You say you come from Ghaanna? Then we have a lot in common!' Sissie didn't know what to do with the statement, uncertain of whether it was a threat or a promise.
'We had chiefs like you,' the Scot went on, 'who fought one another and all, while the Invader marched in.' Sissie thanked her, but also felt strongly that their kinship had better end right there. ~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Ama Ata Aidoo
Sissie could see it all. In her uncertain eyes, on her restless hands and on her lips, which she kept biting all the time.
But oh, her skin. It seemed as if according to the motion of her emotions Marija's skin kept switching on and switching off like a two-colour neon sign. So that watching her against the light of the dying summer sun, Sissie could not help thinking that it must be a pretty dangerous matter, being white. It made you feel awfully exposed, rendered you terribly vulnerable. Like being born without your skin or something. As though the Maker had fashioned the body of a human, stuffed it into a polythene bag instead of the regular protective covering, and turned it loose into the world.
Lord, she wondered, is that why, on the whole, they have had to be extra ferocious? Is it so they could feel safe here on the earth, under the sun, the moon and the stars? ~ Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Ama Ata Aidoo
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. ~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Bjornstjerne Bjornson
At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that. ~ Patrick Modiano
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Patrick Modiano
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue. ~ Kevin Smith
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Kevin Smith
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer. ~ Franz Kafka
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Franz Kafka
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. Mario Vargas Llosa ~ Mario Vargas-Llosa
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Mario Vargas-Llosa
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Naguib Mahfouz
A struggling writer, 'I get hundreds of rejection letters each day. I am depressed with this life, Can you please help?' The Wise-man, 'No, I can't help. It is good that you are being rejected. The more you get rejection letters, the better your writing will become. Always remember, first they will reject you, then they ... ignore you, then they will laugh at you and finally, they may accept you. ~ Santosh Kalwar
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Santosh Kalwar
As a writer, I've tried to avoid strong opinions about morality. You just want to present things as they are and let the viewer come to their own conclusion. ~ Terence Winter
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Terence Winter
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it. ~ E.B. White
Ghanaian Writer quotes by E.B. White
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. ~ John Scalzi
Ghanaian Writer quotes by John Scalzi
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. ~ Elie Wiesel
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Elie Wiesel
The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use of English was no doubt colored by his first language, which was Polish. And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench.

In some of the more remote hollows of Appalachia, children still grow up hearing songs and locutions of Elizabethan times. Yes, and many Americans grow up hearing a language other than English, or an English dialect a majority of Americans cannot understand.

All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens not to be standard English, and if it shows itself when you write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.

I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis, which is what I am. What alternatives do I have? The one most vehemently recommended by teachers has no doubt been pressed on you, as well: to w ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. ~ Anne Lamott
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Anne Lamott
There is a reason why I am a writer ... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to you! ~ Phil Wohl
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Phil Wohl
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die. ~ Luigi Pirandello
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Luigi Pirandello
And so they would go on talking or rather, understanding, which has become the main art of speech in an age when words are growing daily so scanty in comparison with ideas that 'the biscuits ran out' has to stand for kissing a negress in the dark when one has just read Bishop Berkeley's philosophy for the tenth time. (And from this it follows that only the most profound masters of style can tell the truth, and when one meets a simple one–syllable writer, one may conclude, without any doubt at all, that the poor man is lying.) ~ Virginia Woolf
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Virginia Woolf
When a writer dies, he becomes his books. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
My passion is becoming involved in good work, whether that means as an actor or writer or director or producer or all - that is not as important to me. ~ Bryan Cranston
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Bryan Cranston
Putting a book together is interesting and exhilarating. It is sufficiently difficult and complex and it engages all your intelligence. It is life at its most free. Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let it rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself. ~ Annie Dillard
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Annie Dillard
Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important. ~ Donna Tartt
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Donna Tartt
If you write literary fiction that's set partly in the future, you're apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives. ~ Emily St. John Mandel
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Emily St. John Mandel
Writing can be a bit like unfolding something ... Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too. ~ Michael Rosen
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Michael Rosen
I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and it gets tiresome to read books about skinny women all the time. There's nothing wrong with skinny women, I just don't relate to their lives, and it would be really hard for me, as a writer, to fully inhabit that character otherwise. ~ Seraphina Donavan
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Seraphina Donavan
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return. ~ Pearl S. Buck
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Pearl S. Buck
Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer. ~ Pat Barker
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Pat Barker
A writer must say yes to life. ~ Natalie Goldberg
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Natalie Goldberg
A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan. ~ Marcel Proust
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Marcel Proust
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. ~ V.S. Naipaul
Ghanaian Writer quotes by V.S. Naipaul
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. ~ Helen Garner
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Helen Garner
I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. ~ William Gibson
Ghanaian Writer quotes by William Gibson
Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!
Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise. ~ Marilynn Dawson
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Marilynn Dawson
Tamina feels that the eyes of a single outsider are enough to destroy the worth of her personal diaries, while Goethe thinks that if a single individual fails to set eyes on his lines, that individual calls his–Goethe's–entire existence into question. The difference between Tamina and Goethe is the difference between human being and writer. ~ Milan Kundera
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Milan Kundera
The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue. ~ Ashwin Sanghi
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Ashwin Sanghi
No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I care about or on a subject that appeals to me. ~ Michael Dirda
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Michael Dirda
What I have to offer as a writer/director is the stuff with the feeling in it. ~ Jill Soloway
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Jill Soloway
Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer. ~ Elia Kazan
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Elia Kazan
My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. ~ Rudy Francisco
Ghanaian Writer quotes by Rudy Francisco
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