Quotes About Writing

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

I said that the greatest female writers, with almost no exceptions, have been childless. A fact. And I have said that women generally, by virtue of their desire to mother, are incapable of the necessarily single-minded focus anyone must bring to the creation of literature, true literature. I don't retract a word. That is a fact.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

Frankly, anybody who's going to kill themselves because of a bad review has no business writing a novel in the first place.

You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing, Strike

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels." Strike

but we don't know whether the killer writes." "Oh, nearly everyone does these days," said Fancourt. "The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith

Demam macam apakah ini, kenapa orang ingin sekali unjuk diri dalam bentuk tertulis?

Biros mostly. Whatever's around."' Waldegrave

You lost a good friend and a wife within—what—months of each other?" "A few months, yes." "You were writing all through that time?" "Yes," said Fancourt, with an angry, condescending laugh, "I was writing all through that time. It's my profession. Would anyone ask you whether you were still in the army while you were having private difficulties?

Hard to remember these days that there was a time when you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can be Michiko Kakutani.

If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact because in my line of work I read a lot of bad books - books so bad they aren't even published, which is quite a feat, when you consider what is published. And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you're reading it.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be taught to be a writer. That has to come from within.

once believed that a published author must be an Olympian being—a wise or at least worldly philosopher-god who rises at noon, feeds his muse a diet of scotch/rocks, and debauches his soul into the keys of a rusty Underwood Noiseless while the rest of the world sleeps.

Two events in 1996 spurred me to consider writing another book on reconciliation. The first was an invitation from Antonio Baus, C.PP.S., to come to Chile in January 1997

Without writing, I sometimes suspect there would be no such thing as love.

If we have nothing to write about but nothing to write about, then that is what we have to write about.