Writing Quotes

(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.

All writing is filth

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

The twentieth century has built up a powerful set of intellectual shortcuts and devices that help us defend ourselves against moments when clouds suddenly appear to think.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure

I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

All stories are love stories.

الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.

Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.

Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.

What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true

Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

That’s the magic of revisions – every cut is necessary, and every cut hurts, but something new always grows.

I fix the cramped, lined pageswith my curious stare. How do youcome to exist?

I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...

To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.

I go with the flow but I write against it.

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.

I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

i write, because not breathing is not an option.

Beware of the compound adjective, beloved of the tyro and the 'poetess'.

Whenever I didn't know what to write next, I put a swift river in front of his horse and sent the two of them across!

You cannot write unless you write much.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.