Quotes About Writing

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.

In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than the novel and that is its success.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the level of success I've had. I was just writing stories for my own sons.

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

PhD, MFA, self-taught - the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure, and success.

Robin Buss is a writer and translator who contributes regularly to The Times Educational Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement and other papers.

Ho sempre avuto più paura di una penna, di una bottiglietta d'inchiostro e di un foglio di carta che non di una spada o di una pistola.

When one thinks," said Caderousse, letting his hand drop on the paper, "there is here wherewithal to kill a man more sure than if we waited at the corner of a wood to assassinate him! I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.

One of his peculiarities was never to speak a word of French, which he however wrote with great facility.

Întotdeauna mi-a fost mai fric? de o pan?, de o sticlu?? cu cerneal? ÅŸi de o coal? de hîrtie decît de o sabie sau un pistol