Quotes About Writing

The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

ayr?ca gerçek bir yazar asla yazarl??? b?rakmaz,yazmasa da b?rakmaz.

Hay un escritor llamado Clerk o Lewis que escribió sobre sí mismo tras la muerte de su mujer, y empezó diciendo: "Nadie me dijo nunca que la pena fuera una sensación tan parecida al miedo

Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be.

Thot. Está sosteniendo cañas de papiro porque él fue la persona que introdujo la escritura en el mundo. La introducción de la escritura fue algo muy importante, probablemente el acto de mayor influencia que haya ocurrido en este planeta en este ciclo. Logró más cambios en nuestra evolución y conciencia que cualquier otro hecho individual en nuestra historia conocida.

Pensare disse Caderousse, lasciando cadere la mano sulla carta pensare che qui c'è un modo di uccidere un uomo più sicuramente che se lo si aspettasse all'angolo di un bosco per assassinarlo! Ho sempre avuto più paura di una penna , di una boccetta d'inchiostro e di un foglio di carta che di una spada o di una pistola

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you've written it? Writing is knowing... I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

write hard & clear about what hurts.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" said Rilke.

Writing is like masturbating when you have just masturbated. It's not fun. But it has to be done, or else people would not have anything to read while they sit on the toilet.

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

The cerebellum, she remarked, is not infrequently the seat of literary emotions

He knew enough of his subject to know that he did not know enough to write about it....

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope, to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.

La lectura debería ser un acto de creación, como el escribir.

He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.

She clutched her manuscript, carrying it tenderly through the crowd, like a live thing that had been hurt.

At this rate, he felt, he might even live to see the day when novelists described their characters by some other device than that of manoeuvring them into examining themselves in mirrors.

Someone said a writer should read three times more than he or she writes.