Quotes About Writing

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

Gibson stepped onto a relentless treadmill, writing a full novel for each issue. Working under the pseudonym Maxwell Grant, he became one of the busiest practitioners of the pulp era. By 1932, buoyed by success, the magazine had become bimonthly, and Gibson was writing a novel every two weeks. Ultimately, he would do more than 280 Shadow books.

Writing as if she were receiving information from another troubled and perplexed source or voice that was speaking to her, Jerry described the beauty of the Brazilian

When characters got up and moved on their own I found it so unnerving that I would stop writing for days. Glue eventually held them down.

Mi sedetti alla macchina da scrivere e dentro di me si fece il vuoto, un vuoto terribile.

that office was my manuscript The Long Lost Hills. Love wasn't everything. Women weren't everything. A writer had to conserve his energies.

All at once the self pity drained from me. There was life still, there was a typewriter and paper and eyes to see them, and thoughts to keep them alive.

I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That's your trouble: your ignorance of life.

My advice to all young writers is quite simple. I would caution them never to evade a new experience. I would urge them to live life in the raw, to grapple with it bravely, to attack it with naked fists.

efforts demonstrated that he had little facility for writing propaganda or even for communicating with a broad audience. No rejoinder was more learned than his treatises, but none was so unreadable.

and a campfire for illumination. Usually a slow writer—he

I've heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," Gilan said. "But I never knew the inkwell could be mightier than the dagger.

the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...

it's merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper ...

you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

writing with ferocity is a gift, provided that ferocity is a monomaniacal devotion to pursuing the truth ...

in India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know your hand - it fits so well in mine ...

to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?...

it's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life ...

some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...