Writing Quotes
I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt like home. There was not the slightest smell of something that didn’t belong home.
The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.
Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!
Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.
She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting now,
I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.
The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.
Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.
Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...
A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth!
I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves.
Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.
Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further
A writer sets up his own amazing experiment: his work of fiction.
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.
We write to give strength to our souls and souls of others.
We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.
The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death.
And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities.
Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end.
You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good.
Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.
