Quotes About Writing

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet,then you must write it.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it

They say women are blessed with the ability to forget the pain of childbirth so they will be able to have more children later. I often wonder whether the same principle applies to the challenges of writing a book of this magnitude. Had another author warned me about what a monumental task it would be, I'm not sure I would have been so insane as to pursue the dream.

Writers do not write about a place because they belong there, but because they want to.

History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect,' the English historian C.V. Wedgwood observed. 'We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

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I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.

A sort of intimacy is forged when someone reads your book and both you and your reader wind up less alone in the world.

Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.

Bert swore, trousered his gun, and found a stub of pencil which he licked, then used to write down the car's number on his far-from-white cuff.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I hate all these crazy verbs, using a subjunctive to get what's happened in the future and the past mixed up.

Taký brak odmietam písa?! Vrátim sa a poviem mu, aby si ve?mi rýchlo urobil magickú cesnakovú omeletu, inak mu prehryznem kr?nú tepnu" - tá predstava ma tak vyviedla z miery, že som iba dodala: "A potom... potom pôjdem domov alebo ?o..

I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

I've seen too many writers derail their creative process by stopping the action to tweak a word or a sentence. If you write a few paragraphs, then go back and polish them, you destroy all the forward momentum you had. It's like shifting gears—forward, reverse, forward, reverse. You could burn out your mental transmission. If you can train yourself to save the criticism for the second draft, you'll actually finish writing and have something to polish.

In fact, the average person online today writes more words in a year than many professional writers of the past. This torrent is unedited, unmanaged, completely bottom up. And the attention given to this immense corpus of prosumer content is significant—it was sold to advertisers for $24 billion in 2015.

When a reporter asked Ernest Hemingway how to become a good writer, he responded, "Have a lousy childhood.

What if it isn't good enough? What if this is the book that will make everyone hate me?