Quotes About Writing

The pen still stays a traditional writing power; however, the pen work has disappeared since the Clickdom as a Kingdom has overcome that.

The worst and legalized dishonesty is: Promote your writing and work with own finance, and risk to catch fame, and sign to let the promoter to earn money upon that, which you envisage and deserve.

The worth, height, and beauty of writing lie in its level and nature of fiction.

The worth, height, and beauty of writing, lie upon its level and nature of fiction.

Though one writes about humanity, equality, neutrality, justice, and such other terms routinely; however, it is a pen, not character; otherwise, the entire world was at peace.

The written word for the trouble is two women beneath one rooftree, and I greatly fear that the wise man who invented writing had knowledge that cost him dear. Perhaps he, too, had a daughter-in-law.

Awards are the only currency Amercian writing has to describe a writer's work.

I write because I would like to be used for years after my death.

are you writing a book or are you just in your house

The poet's life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We're hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

The best thing you can do for a writer is give them a bad review.

want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for giving me this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. ANNE FRANK

This is Not a Poem" One can fill every inch with writing and still be no closer to the poem as it lies there a liar with a beautiful voice that is often mistaken for silence.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

To write, you have to want something to survive you.

The depressed don't write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place." "Isn't that how it is?" No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time. Otherwise they're useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.

my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.

As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens oneself.

I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

Beautiful writing becomes beautiful when it loses its harmony and has the desperate power of the ugly.

Let's write one together," Lila said once, and that filled me with joy.

Quiero que ella esté, por eso escribo. Quiero que borre, que añada, que colabore en nuestra historia volcando en ella, según su inspiración, las cosas que sabe, que dijo o que pensó