Quotes About Writing

Even if you consider yourself a terrible writer, writing can be viewed as a tool. There are huge benefits to writing, even if no one—yourself included—ever reads what you write. In other words, the process matters more than the product.

One of the best pieces of advice I've received for writing was a mantra: "Two crappy pages per day.

Draft ugly and edit pretty.

La magia es que poca gente sabe dibujar bien y escribir chistes.

Si piensas en algo más de tres veces por semana, tienes que escribir sobre eso"».

If you think about something more than three times a week, you have to write about it.

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If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even—on the rare miracle day—20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty.

Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

clarity of writing indicates clarity of thinking.

After it was sold, the president of one potential marketing partner, a large bookseller, e-mailed me historical bestseller statistics to make it clear—this wouldn't be a mainstream success. So I did all I knew how to do. I wrote it with two of my closest friends in mind, speaking directly to them and their problems—problems I long had—and I focused on the unusual options

Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, "spiritual windshield wipers.

Si sabes escribir bien, también sabes pensar bien.»

The most complicated letters in English, like E and W, have four strokes. Many Japanese characters have more than 15 strokes

I remembered that actually I had always wanted to be a writer. So I started writing that very evening." Susan Cain

Creo que la claridad por escrito revela claridad de pensamiento».

FriXion by Pilot in blue. It writes so smoothly, and being able to erase it gives me a sense of power and delight. I often use the pen with a "smart" notebook (like the Rocketbook Everlast smart notebook)

Fortunately for writers, literary characters don't have unions.

Even when not in the act of writing Muscatine a letter, I was often composing one in my mind, situating the words just so, plunking one here, then one there, gauging how to sound worthy of his regard.

E poi, meglio non scrivere e passare per finto che scrivere e togliere ogni dubbio.

Lubi? pisa? listy. Zawsze my?la?em, ?e gdybym urodzi? si? w bogatej rodzinie i trzysta lat temu tam, gdzie urodzi?em si? w biedzie, we Florencji, chcia?bym tylko podró?owa? po ca?ym ?wiecie, ?eby pisa? listy. Dziennikarstwo do pewnego stopnia pozwoli?ó mi robi? co? podobnego, ale by?em ograniczony i?o?ci? miejsca, terminami, wymogami j?zyka. Teraz w ko?cu mog? po prostu pisa? listy.

Viaggiando per il mondo a cercar di capirlo non ci sono migliori compagni di quelli che con lo stesso spirito han fatto la stessa strada e ne hanno scritto.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.