Writing Quotes
At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.
Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.
What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.
Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.
I've finally decided to write about profit for a changeBut before I really started I already started to feel lameBaby what's it to a beast who manely to money remains untamed
Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.
If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!
First organizing it on paper isn't just academic, it's an applied prerequisite for manifestation.
He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.
Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!
I write to prove that we lived. I write both to remember and to let go. I write because I can't stop, not until this horrible story of ours is over and we're safe at home.
What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.
Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final s
I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.
If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.
I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.
When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m
You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.
Once you realize life is magic, you will never look upon the world with dimmed eyes again.
Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.
Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.
The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.
When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.