Quotes About Writing

Trata a la escritura como un dios y sírvele de manera fiel.

Escribir puede ser exigente, pero los momentos de progreso compensan de sobra. Cuando creamos, siento que estamos a sólo un milímetro de lo divino.

Gordon was always doing book signings. He loved them. He always talked about weird his readers were." "Even if this was a book that the average mage was interested in reading, why would you be doing a signing? You're not writing it." "But I'm contributing." "Providing sarcastic comments in the margins is not enough of a contribution to warrant a book tour." "Well, that sucks.

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

The tourist archipelagoes of my Southare prisons too, corruptible, and thoughthere is no harder prison than writing verse,what's poetry, if it is worth its salt,but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?

A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

The desire to write grows with writing.

The conservative view was less literary: its proponents were too busy running businesses and the country to write much.

Dear neptunus, aku mencintainya. di depannya aku menjadi diriku sendiri, seperti airmu yang selalu membawa semua pesanku, diapun begitu. membuatku hanyut oleh sorot matanya, membuatku lupa oleh kesedihan rasanya, sampai aku tak bisa katakan apa-apa padanya. bahkan untuk sekedar bilang rindu atau butuh..banyak yang nggak ngerti lalu terluka dan saling menyalahkan. karena itu aku takut berbicara tentang hati.maka kutuliskan saja, lalu kusimpan dan ku kirimkan ke..entah kemana..

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

You don't always have to go so far as to murder your darlings – those turns of phrase or images of which you felt extra proud when they appeared on the page – but go back and look at them with a very beady eye. Almost always it turns out that they'd be better dead. (Not every little twinge of satisfaction is suspect – it's the ones which amount to a sort of smug glee you must watch out for.

They brought home to me the central reason why books have meant so much to me. It is not because of my pleasure in the art of writing, though that has been very great. It is because they have taken me so far beyond the narrow limits of my own experience and have so greatly enlarged my sense of the complexity of life: of its consuming darkness, and also – thank God – of the light which continues to struggle through.

Tollers, there is too little of what we really like in stories. I am afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.

10 October 1946 Tollers continued to read his new Hobbit: so sui generis, so alive with the peculiar charm of his "magical" writing, that it is indescribable—and merely worth recording here for an odd proof of how near he is to real magic. 24

Richards and Maureen Sherbondy, also contributed their ideas at various points in the story, as did my sister, Joann Scanlon, and my assistant

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

Words -- as I speak or write them -- make a path on which I walk.

Writing and conversation were vital for success in the world, Elizabeth sounded the family creed and, like Mary and Abigail when their sons left for Harvard, exhorted: "Committing our thoughts to paper makes us more attentive—more close observers—of everything which obliges us to think." Writing a mother was particularly salubrious.

All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.

Writing is more about discovery than invention.