Writing Quotes
I wasn't born to cook or clean, but to read and write, if you don't like me the way I am, then go fly a kite.
Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.
it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It'stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.
Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.
I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul
Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.
But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.")
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.
Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
He’s an indulgent sort of man……With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships.
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say.
A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.
Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.
The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.
Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.
Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert.
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)
I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.
Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no, " she said. "I can't even stay married.
