Quotes About Writing

Mientras escribía sus cartas, el cuervo escudriñaba con la cabeza prácticamente inmóvil, contemplando con asombro maravillado la punta de la pluma, la tinta que se derramaba letra a letra sobre el papel y que iba dejando palabras y frases a su paso. Parecía como si el negro cuervo estuviera enamorado de Pakize .

We write novels not because we feel we understand life and people, but because we feel we understand other novels and the art of the novel, and wish to write in a similar way.

Yazmak, o çok söylenen basmakal?p deyiÅŸle, bir yoluculuÄŸa ç?kmaksa eÄŸer, yazmak mutluluÄŸu da yolculuk boyunca kar??n?za ç?k?veren bu yol arkadaÅŸlar?n? kendi dünyan?za kazand?rabilmenin sevinci olmal?.

wir wären die Dichter unseres eigenen Lebens, wenn wir erst in den Zeitungen schrieben, was uns geschehen wird, und dann staunend die schönen Dinge erleben, die wir verfasst haben

Benim için hakiki edebiyat?n baÅŸlad??? yer, kitaplarla kendini bir odaya kapatan adamd?r.

While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.

I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.

As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

The novelty and freshness you'll bring to the field won't come from the new ideas you think up. Truly new ideas are rare, and usually turn out to be variations on old themes anyway. No, your freshness will come from the way you think, from the person you are; it will inevitably show up in your writing, provided you don't mask it with heavy-handed formulas or clichés.

And it's true, thought Valentine. I'm not the same person, really, from book to book, because each world changes who I am, even as I write down the story of the world. And this world most of all.

I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet.

And so she wrote, and wept; and when the weeping was done, the writing went on. When the hair that he had left behind was sealed in a small box and buried in the grass near Human's root, she would stand and speak. Her voice would raise him from the dead, make him live again in memory. And she would also be merciful; and she would also be just. That much, at least, she had learned from him.

sesquipedalian bushwa.

I think you're too smart to write the kind of book that would please the kind of reader who would buy a book with that title.

Cambiar al mundo es bueno para aquellos que quieren su nombre en los libros. Pero ser feliz... eso es para aquellos que escriben sus nombres en las vidas de los demás y retienen los corazones de otros como el tesoro más preciado.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.