Re Writing Quotes

I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

You are responsible for everything you post and everything you post will be a reflection of you. [Social Media]

Writers are engineers of human souls.

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

You can never know enough about your characters

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I’m afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities?

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Do you know what the difference is between PR and advertising? Advertising is when you say how great you are. PR is when other people say how great you are. PR is better.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.