Quotes About Writing

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Finally, the perpetuity of the Law appears in God's writing it in the hearts of His people at their new birth.

He'd have given a rare incunabulum, in good condition, to punch the face of whoever was writing this ridiculus script.

Sólo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos públicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen más que la educación de sus súbditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores.

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

vida. A esta edad hay más historias por escribir que tiempo para ocuparse de ellas. Elegir una implica dejar morir otras. Por eso es necesario escoger con cuidado. Equivocarse lo justo.

A esta edad hay más historias por escribir que tiempo para ocuparse de ellas.

I think new writers are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you.

The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

Fight for your write.

Love, if I managed to write it down, would approach a critical point: there where lies the risk of exhuming buried cries, those of yesterday and as well as those of a hundred years ago. But my sole ambition in writing is constantly to travel to fresh pastures and replenish my water skins with an inexhaustible silence.

You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.

They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.

Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Entre paréntesis te contaré que en cierta ocasión una señorita me preguntó, para un periódico, si en lo que escribo hay algún mensaje. Yo le contesté que sí, que en todo lo que escribo hago llamados a la rebelión y a la revolución, pero desgraciadamente en una forma tan sutil que por lo general mis lectores se vuelven reaccionarios).

Entendemos que escribir es un acto pecaminoso, al principio contra los grandes modelos, enseguida contra nuestros padres, y pronto, indefectiblemente, contra las autoridades.

If I had writing materials, I might write a guidebook, a source of advice and inspiration for the next generation of masked criminals, bent prodigies, and lonely geniuses, the ones who've been taught to feel different, or the ones who knew it from the start. The ones who are smart enough to do something about it. There are things they should hear. Somebody has to tell them.

You write because everything dies, to save what dies.

I did point out that I have no prophetic gifts. I write books because I tried to do something more useful and failed. Since I've been trained to write, I do that as a defense against total despair. And seeing people like you, who are actively engaged in trying to salvage pieces of our wrecked lives, gives me hope that after all we are not alone.

Okurlar?n, gerçekten hangi ortamda yazd???m? gerçek yüzüyle öÄŸrenmek istediklerini sanm?yorum. Ama sormuÅŸsunuz, anlatay?m. Ortam mortam diye bir ÅŸey yok, ne demek ortam? Hiçbir Türk yazar?, yaz? yazmas? için ortam arayacak duruma gelmemiÅŸtir. Nerde, neresini, nas?l bulursak, orda yazmak zorunday?z.