Writing Quotes

It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!

Imagination is Everything!

The imagination needs moodling, --long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

CALVIN:Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

DWIGHT:Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

Buku yang kau tulis adalah semacam jejak yang terus menyala di dunia, dan bisa menjadi cahaya akhiratmu.

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'", March 25, 2007.)

She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough

It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.

Membaca dan menulis membuatmu menjadi.

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.", Issue 64, Winter 1975)

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.

No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....

Look, don't just stare at the pages, " I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.

Seperti apakah Anda? Menurut saya, paling tidak Anda adalah apa yang Anda tulis.

Toby: All right. It couldn't have gone far, right?Sam: No.Toby: Somewhere in this building...is our talent.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!

There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages.

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.

I am the perfect version of me.

...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.

Write, ' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]

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