Writing Quotes
Maybe princes aren’t real, ” Sada said. Her eyes were crafty and sad at the same time. “But monsters are.” She opened her mouth wide and showed Azhar the wildflowers sitting on her tongue.
I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.
The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers.
If I could make money making armpit farts, I would. But since I can't, I teach. And write.
Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.
So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.
The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.
Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas.
Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over.
Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.
He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".
Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.
Good writing is true writing. If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is
To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.
The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page, like a contagion, which the reader then catches.
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and laughter 'til they bloom, 'til you yourself burst into bloom.
Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric far stronger than any individual element
One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.
And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)
When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.
Statements make sense for somebody who needs advice. I’m not giving advice. I don’t instruct. At my best, I delight. That’s my job.
...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.
So I went back in time and told her how I liked the smell of soil after the rain. It has a special place in my heart. It reminds me of my childhood days. Days spent in happiness and tranquility.
Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life.
Without the hard we stay too soft, and heaven is reduced to myths like life. Theology aside, it’s plain to see that God forbids we get too comfortable.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.
When Tito was born, I was writing my fifth novel. That was how I saw my future: living in Venice and jumping from novel to novel. Tito's birth changed all that.
poetry is not—except in a very limited sense—a form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?
How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …
The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.
I have never found a painter more beautiful than his paintings nor a writer who was more expressive than his works. While one got his hands dirty, other made the paper dirty to create masterpieces!
I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.
You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.
In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.
