Writing Quotes - Page 28

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.

So what if I fall? I know I will never fallas hard as i fell for you.

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.

You never know what you will write until you write it

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

When my journal appears many statues must come down.

The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could make the thing solid and visible and therefore to be coped with. Solid and visible form was what she had been seeking. I will put this into visible language.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Man's panic does not produce God's power.....sometimes you need to pray before you post on social media.

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing

I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

The heart is a repository of emotions--real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future--and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.

Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.

Research" is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.

Men feel about sex the way vampires feel about blood. They don't just like it, they crave it. That's why vampire stories always have strong sexual undercurrents. A vampire's hunger is simply a metaphor for a man's lust.

A love of writing is far greater than any word count.

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.

There is a point where, as a writer, you grow to hate your characters, their stupid motivations, and their whiny inner dialogues. The only solution I have found to deal with that is to kill the character, resurrect him, then kill him again.

Because I’ve gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.

Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.