Quotes About Writing

He also began writing his own column. He called it "In the Lion's Den" and wrote it in the voice of an opinionated English-speaking mountain lion.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang of the printing press - a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time.

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We are all whispering in a tin can on a string, but we are heard, so we whisper the message into the next tin can and the next string. Writing a book, just like building a library, is a sheer act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage—the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read.

We are all whispering into the next tin can and the next string. Writing a book, just like building a library, is a sheer act of defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage—the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read. I was struck by how precious and foolish and brave that belief is, and how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them.

I convinced myself that committing them to a page meant the memory was saved, somehow, from the corrosive effect of time.

a novel that was romantic but not corny;

Even the oddest, most particular book was written with that kind of crazy courage - the writer's belief that someone would find his or her book important to read.

Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

THE NEXT TIME you notice that despair is driving you and you don't know how to believe in happiness anymore, slow down. Pick up a pen and a piece of paper and write down the wish that is at the center of your desperation: "I

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

All we women have to give you is memory. Everything we washed is there. Everything we cooked. Everything we said. What we felt we might keep to ourselves, unless someone wrote it down.

let's think about why you need a grammar book at all.

The most damaging mistakes a writer can make are probably misspelling or misusing words

Part of the school dilemma results from an over-focus on testing results; home educators are free from that pressure, so you won't have to decide between test prep and expository writing.

In fact, far from being phonetic, hieroglyphs were designed to be indecipherable unless you possessed the key to their meaning. The Egyptian priests, who were guardians of this information, patrolled the borders of their knowledge in order to keep this tool in their own hands. Ever since, the mastery of writing and reading has been an act of power

Unlike myself, she has the accident of style rather than the intention.

The bravado, the resentment in the writing excites them, but they cannot allow themselves to feel it.

I decided that if he noticed my notebooks, I'd say that I was writing in my diary. A safe girl-thing to be doing.

How do you know I'm a writer?" I asked. "I can tell," he said. "You're making shit up in your head all the time.

I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing's Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy, looking for a dumbwaiter to hide in, scribbling down all I witnessed.