Quotes About Courage

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If I'd listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.

Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I write something and it's not amazing, I don't care because even if I feel like it might not be amazing, it could still be a number-one hit.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They call me.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.

I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a profession. My dad saved me all that time by making me think, 'Oh, anyone can be a writer. It's like being a firefighter or a lawyer.'

But when I did think about it and looked at the whole package - the producers behind the show, the writers, the cast I would be working with - I would have been a fool to turn it down just because the role for me was another gay role.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work - people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don't agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind.

Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.

It's the age of daring. It's the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.

It's heaven to know that it's still possible to run, though she doesn't know what she's running from.

In her time Nor Tigelaar had faced insurrectionists and collaborationists and war profiteers. She'd endured abduction and prison and self-mutilation. She'd sold herself in sex not for cash but for military information that might come in handy to the resistance, and in so doing she'd come across a rum variety of human types.

It seems there is no shortage of regret among the young -- but then, they are young, they make mistakes. They have time to correct them and the courage to admit their failings aloud.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

That's the beginning of heroism, the decision to try.