Quotes About Writing

He taught them not to give the Green Gimlet Toad too much water, and to never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian Wolfsnake near a typewriter.

Es mucho, mucho peor recibir las malas noticias por escrito que alguien te las diga, y estoy seguro de que comprendéis por qué. Cuando alguien simplemente te da malas noticias, las oyes una vez y ya está. Pero cuando las malas noticias están escritas, ya sea en una carta, un periódico o en tu brazo con rotulador, cada vez que las lees es como si recibieses las mismas noticias una y otra vez.

Almost always, shortening a sentence improves it. A nice short sentence feels like something has been left out, which helps give it the element of surprise.

Per esempio, una volta amavo una donna che per vari motivi non poteva sposarmi. Se me l'avesse detto di persona naturalmente sarei stato molto triste, ma alla fine mi sarebbe passata. Invece, lei scelse di scrivere un libro di duecento pagine, diffondendosi su ogni singolo dettaglio della cattiva notizia, prolungando così all'inverosimile la mia tristezza.

I can compare the pencil I am using to write these words (and these words, and these and these) to my own life, because it is sometimes sharp and sometimes dull, and because it is getting shorter and shorter the more I use it, and because even when I try to erase things you can still see the marks they left behind.

Cuando alguien simplemente te da malas noticias, las oyes una vez y ya está. Pero cuando las malas noticias están escritas, ya sea en una carta, un periódico o en tu brazo con rotulador, cada vez que las lees es como si recibieses las mismas noticias una y otra vez.

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Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

George S. Kaufman, a prince of wit, once remarked that he liked to write with his collaborator, Moss Hart, because Hart was so lucky. "In my case," said Kaufman, "it's gelt by association.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

James Patterson

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I was actually thinking about writing, maybe, Owen said. About Charm? Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. No? Owen said, probably a bit too fast too be believable. I have some other ideas.

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

In the end, writing is like a prison, an island from which you will never be released but which is a kind of paradise: the solitude, the thoughts, the incredible joy of putting into words the essence of what you for the moment understand and with your whole heart want to believe.