Quotes About Writing

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richtig, was du für richtig hältst.

McCracken's latest novel straddles the line between fiction and memoir, though she rejects the term "autofiction" as sounding "like it might be written by a robot, or a kiosk, or a European.

It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.

And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

A pen is a furious weapon. But it needs a rage of will.

My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, "Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again!

I took myself—secretly, secretly—very seriously! I knew I was a writer. I didn't know how hard it would be. But no one knows that; and that does not matter.)

What is it like to be you? I need to say: This is the question that has made me a writer; always that deep desire to know what it feels like to be a different person.

Leer mala literatura es como comer comida basura

I said on the phone to my mother, "I think I'm going to write the story of the Burgess kids." "It's a good one," she agreed. "People will say it's not nice to write about people I know." My mother was tired that night. She yawned. "Well, you don't know them," she said. "Nobody ever knows anyone.

cuando escribes una novela, puedes reescribirla, pero cuando vives con alguien veinte años, ésa es la novela, y no puedes volver a escribir esa novela con nadie.

It is a literary truism that there must be a period of distillation before the real impact of some tremendous event, either historical or personal, can emerge in writing.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

crucial for understanding that more celebrated book. For in writing the Discourses, Machiavelli discovered a basic paradox: When it comes to liberty, nothing fails like success.

To win the secret of words, to make a phrase that would murmur of summer and the bee, to summon the wind into a sentence, to conjure the odour of the night into the surge and fall and harmony of a line; this was the tale of the long evenings, of the candle flame white upon the paper and the eager pen.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo.

La început a fost un anumit studiu.AÅŸterneam pe hârtie t?ceri,nopÅ£i,notam inexprimabilul.Fixam vârtejuri.

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