Quotes About Writing

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.

I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.

He had not been much of a poet, but poet enough for his love-sonnets and satires to weaken his lungs.

My blood ran with this ink...

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The great poet, in writing himself, writes his time.

Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration.

Remember to have a little faith. When you die, I believe, God isn't going to ask you what you published. God's going to ask you what you wrote.

A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.

I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels. -What levels? -All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.

to nic nie znaczy, do diab?a, w ko?cówce naszego wspania?ego XX wieku, wieku tyranii i rozpasanej demokracji, g?upkowatej ?wi?to?ci i genialnego ?ajdactwa, skapcania?ej sztuki i rozwydrzonej grafomanii.

Poet? jest ten który pisze wiersze I ten który wierszy nie pisze

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Thus, let's see what God has to say about dealing with writer's block. Not surprisingly, it isn't among Josh's issues.

Originalmente, para alguien de tan escaso talento y capacidad como yo, quizás habría sido una osadía tratar de ganarme el sustento como escritor. Si la tragedia me impidiera vivir y me dejara sin aliento, no habría nada más que hacer. Sin embargo, mientras me quede algo de vida, obviamente quiero dedicar a ello todas mis fuerzas.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

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.

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.

the more turbulent the emotions expressed on paper, the greater the improvement in their immune function.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darnedest things in the margins of their books.

Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don't write it right, just write it –and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of "writing rules" and advice. Do it your way.