Walker Percy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

  Walker Percy

  Writing, Titles, Metaphor

• But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

  Walker Percy

  Writing, Physicians, Medical

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Thanatos Syndrome”, p.2, Open Road Media

• I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

  Walker Percy

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.94, Open Road Media

• I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of as someone who writes about a picturesque local scene like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone With the Wind, something like that.

  Walker Percy

  Uncles, Writing, Wind

  Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer (1993). “More Conversations with Walker Percy”, p.223, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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