Quotes About Writing

Il tempo è come le pagine di un libro: nel momento in cui legge la pagina 66, le pagine 67 e 68 sono già scritte.

La vie me fait moins peur.Vous pouvez m'attaquer, vous pouvez me juger, vous pouvez me ruiner. J'aurai toujours à portée de main un vieux bic mâchouillé et un bloc-notes froissé. Mes seules armes. A la fois dérisoires et puissantes. Les seules sur lesquelles j'ai toujours pu compter pour m'aider à traverser la nuit.

La première qualité d'un écrivain était de savoir captiver son lecteur par une bonne histoire. Un récit capable de l'arracher à son existence pour le projeter au coeur de l'intimité et de la vérité des personnages.Le style n'était que le moyen d'innerver la narration et de la rendre vibrante.

añoraba a su anterior editor, que decía preferir la novela imperfecta de un escritor con talento, que la novela perfecta de un escritor mediocre. En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambiela vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.

Julián había apostado por el «cuente, no cante», como exigía Juan Rulfo a sus alumnos en el Centro Mexicano de Escritores

Álvaro Mutis había escrito una gran crónica de su estancia en Lecumberri, él haría su Reclusorio Oriente reloaded.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

What one writes is only the ashes of one's experience.

It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

era poeta, tanto que nunca le habían satisfecho las formas en que pudiera encerrar sus pensamientos, y nunca los había encerrado al escribirlos.

Tú sabes y yo sé que en esta vida con genio es muy contado el que la escribe, y con oro cualquiera hace poesía.

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I'm about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what's so two-headed peculiar about that?

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

Pour savoir écrire, il faut avoir lu, et pour savoir lire, il faut savoir vivre

We see only glimpses of history, even our own. It is not entirely ours--in memory, in writing it down, in hearing or in reading it. We can reclaim only part of the past. Sometimes it is enough....

A writer's brush is a warrior's bow, the letters it shapes are arrows that must hit the mark on the page. The calligrapher is an archer, or a general on a battlefield. Someone wrote that long ago. She feels that way this morning. She is at war.

It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

The first good reason to write a book is to add value to people's lives.

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.