Quotes – Page 6 – Annabel Smith

Fine artistic things seem always to be done in the face of difficulties, and the rocky soil, which seems to give the finest…

Many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a…

When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle…

For a writer, there’s no such thing as an exemplary life. It’s a fact that certain writers do good work at the bottom…

We are two dry stretches of country. We carry the marks of millions of years, from the volcanoes, the ice ages, droughts, fires,…

…I teach…uncontainment…what it is like to build a story in your body from the words to the sentences, to the paragraphs, to the…

Though we can condemn … the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books, we are powerless when it comes to…

Everyone is related to the world through something. I through words… before I stopped writing, words had become treacherous and untrustworthy to me….

The life that produces writing can’t be written about. It is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below…

The question any novel is trying to answer is, Is life worth living? That’s a major question, a huge question, but the best…

Annabel Smith