Quotes About Writing

All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying, for even thinking you could write in the first place. It's all fear. If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way. A lot

The thoughts came fast, and I caught them, stopping only once to sharpen my pencil with a penknife. I thought of Nell's euphoria and nearly laughed out loud. This little rush of words was the closest

Don't you understand? There has to be a balance. A man can't be without power—it doesn't work like that. What was I going to do, write little books behind hers like a fucking echo? I needed something big. And this is big. Books on this thing will write themselves.

Good heavens,' he says. 'Is that what it's like with your writers? The word "snug" and you're mad in love?

Kay Boyle said once that a good story is both an allegory and a slice of life. Most writers are good at one, not the other. But you are doing both so beautifully here.

What I have had for the past six years, what has been constant and steady in my life is the novel I've been writing. This has been my home, the place I could always retreat to. The place I could sometimes even feel powerful, I tell them. The place where I am most myself. Maybe some of you, I tell them, have found this place already. Maybe some of you will find it years from now. My hope is that some of you will find it for the first time today by writing.

No escribo porque tenga algo que contar. Escribo porque si no lo hago, todo empeora mucho más.

I don't write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don't, everything feels even worse

Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!

I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.

creativity and imagination are as crucial to the life writing project as they are to fiction and poetry. We'll explore, and attempt, both autobiography and biography in Part 4, and in activities you'll be able to form your writing into poetry and/or prose.

all anybody is doing when engaging in life writing is giving a narrative shape to a story of a life.

It's a useful exercise to forbid yourself the use of keynote words such as 'fury' or 'jealous' when dramatizing an emotional condition.

withholding it and disclosing it. The writer is always doing one or the other – either keeping things unknown or drip-feeding the reader with details.

In revision, as a rough rule, if the beginning can be cut, cut it. And if any passage sticks out in some way, leaves the main trajectory, could possibly come out — take it out and see what the story looks like that way. Often a cut that seemed sure to leave a terrible hole joins up without a seam. It's as if the story, the work itself, has a shape it's trying to achieve, and will take that shape if you'll only clear away the verbiage.

Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.

Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications

Trying to compose even a single sentence can have the same effect, as we try to juggle grammatical and syntactical alternatives plus all the possibilities of tone, nuance, and rhythm even a simple sentence offers. Composing, then, is a cognitive activity that constantly threatens to overload short-term memory.

Una comunicación escrita es como un territorio extenso y desconocido que te contiene a ti, a tu lector/a, tus ideas, tu propósito y todo lo que puedas hacer. Lo primero que debes hacer como escritor/a es explorar este territorio. Tienes que conocer las leyes de la tierra antes de hollarla.

Writing as proven to be hard work, often painful. I can honestly say I would rather be fishing.

My goal for writing is to touch your heart and tickle your funny bone, while leaving you with a promise of hope in your life and, therefore, in this world.

Just letting readers know that I have written some works under Linda Chaffee Taylor (Chaffee was my maiden name, and that is where you will find my main profile) and Linda K. Taylor (middle initial). I can't figure out how to get Goodreads to combine, but if you want to find all my books, go to the author profile for Linda Chaffee Taylor. And thanks for reading and supporting.

Je me crois un écrivain dans sa tour d'ivoire, je ne suis qu'un minus habens perché sur son nuage.

Écrire, disait [Georges Perros], c'est renoncer au monde en implorant le monde de ne pas renoncer à nous. (p. 37)