Quotes About Writing

write for the noblest end, to inform and instruct mankind; over whom I may, without breach of modesty, pretend to some superiority, from the advantages I received by conversing so long among the

Tineretea are un sfârsit: sfârÈ™itul e aici. Nu va mai fi niciodat?. O È™tii prea bine. ?i atunci? Scrie-o, blestematule, scrie-o! La ce altceva eÈ™ti bun?

And he has pipettishly bespilled himself from his foundingpen as illspent from inkinghorn.

As you sing it it's a study. That letter selfpenned to one's other, that neverperfect everplanned?

There is no more grand moment in a writer's life than typing the first sentence of a new book.

James Lee Burke

I hope you enjoy Wayfaring Stranger. It's the best book and the most biographical one I have written.

if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any more than a woman can have a baby by watching some other woman have one. It is a genital process, and all of its stages are intra-abdominal;

The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write simply by talking: Speak into your computer's recorder, and it'll do all the messy work of punctuation and spelling. This could result in the elimination of the keyboard, [Dennis] Baron speculates. 'We'd get back to oral composition--reinventing Homer.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions

I love the swing and swirl of words as they tangle with human emotions.

It was stupidly, infuriatingly impossible. No wonder I hadn't written anything decent in ages— I couldn't even figure out how to tell a boy that I loved him.

James Patterson

My dear, there is no universal secret. There's only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward

The day, and it was a day, that writing started to be fun for me, the day things began to really click, was the day I stopped trying to write sentences and started writing stories.

James Patterson

James Patterson

James Patterson

The bestselling author of all time, James Patterson.

James Patterson

James Patterson

American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most #1 New York Times bestsellers, and his books have sold more than 350 million

Here's a joke you can

almost drank himself to death, worrying and missing me. I'm trying to make up for the fact that I barely got back in time to save him. I only wish I could have saved Robinson, too. But I know Robinson didn't want me to be broken after his death. He wanted me whole, well, and writing. About us.