What did Hortense Calisher mean by: What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. - Hortense Calisher Copy
+ perhaps there’s no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Meditation Practice, Prayer, Spurs, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Deaf, Ears, Technology, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ I always say that one’s poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one’s friends. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Poetry, Solace, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Mind, Shapes, Writing, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Ideas, Success, Writing, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Family, Intimacy, 0 - Hortense Calisher
+ The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hortense Calisher, Process, Youth, 0 - Hortense Calisher
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA
