Denver Olmstead

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
― Marguerite Duras

“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
― Stephen Fry