Quotes About Writing

But in writing, I feel good - no, not just good, but full. Right, somehow. It's a feeling I haven't experienced in a long, long time, and it's this more than anything that convinces me...

I let the memories flood me as I fill one page. Then another. And then I'm not even writing about him anymore. I'm writing about me.

The one who called her fearless before. The one who writes in complete sentences and quotes dead philosophers. The one who, in a twisted sort of way, makes sense.

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The phrase in tech writing was "easy reading comes from hard writing." Easy consumption of an app comes from really hard work on the backend. - Tori Wieldt

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"—I'm sorry, now, I wrote it!But I can tell you, anyhow,I'll kill you if you quote it.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.

In order to speak clearly, you need to be able to think clearly. And to think clearly, you usually need to be able to write it clearly.

He said he thought it was important to think through problems clearly, and for him, writing things down enforced a logical rigor that he thought was very important for leaders to have.

Writing good humor requires a considerable amount of imagination and a great deal of discipline.

My best advice to a comedy writer is to set a quota and stick to it. It needn't be a demanding quota, but it must be inflexible.

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

There's a Lego in my bum which fits with the Lego in my chair and when I sit down to write, I hear the satisfying snap of the two pieces fitting together.

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It's only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I ­always have to feel that I'm bunking off from something.

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

In writing I was often aware that the same observation could fit neatly into different ideological moulds and that a train window is both mirror and window.

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