Quotes About Writing

Scrivere è una questione di dare, dare, dare, senza tregua.

Be attentive to yourself as you write and you will mark there are times when the words form themselves on the paper de novo, as the Romans used to say, out of the deepest of inner silences.

Navikli smo da verujemo kako je ovaj naš svet stvorio Bog izrekavši Re?; ali sad pitam, zar ne bi moglo biti da ga je ispisao, ispisao re? tako duga?ku da tek treba da dospemo do njenog kraja? Nije li mogu?e da Bog neprekidno ispisuje svet, kako svet tako i sve što je u njemu?

Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart.

Kako ?e on pisati ako ne ume da govori? Slova su ogledalo re?i. I kad naizgled pišemo u tišini, naš zapis je slika i prilika govora koji te?e u nama, bilo da je drugima ili nama samima upu?en.

He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

Why can't I use my laptop to take notes?" To which the Brother Tohrment had replied, "Because the tap-tapping of a keyboard makes me want to get my shotgun. Do you feel like having a cranial leak tonight?" Ward, J.R. (2015-12-01). Blood Kiss: Black Dagger Legacy (p. 229). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue

Yeah, I'm not a virgin and I hate writing.

They say that every author in the course of a career has a couple of books that are just grueling, and Vishous's was definitely that way for me.

I've never really liked directing. I became a director because I didn't like directors telling me how to edit, and I became a writer because I had to write something in order to be able to direct something. So I did everything out of necessity, but what I really like is editing.

The writing part is always the hardest part of filmmaking. Almost anyone can direct—they won't necessarily direct well, but the machinery works—you can take someone off the street and put them with an experienced crew and the movie will get made. But writing can't be faked. It doesn't run itself. It has to be worked out very specifically, word for word, image for image.

Maybe the new one would actually know how to write, instead of beating his head against a stone wall just trying.

The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is remarkable is not so much that it happened relatively late in human history, but that it happened at all.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?