Quotes About Writing

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I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.

It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from falling apart.

I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about You could write about us

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. Also, when I write letters, I spend the next two days thinking about what I figured out in my letters.

Acabo de lembrar o que me fez pensar desta forma. Vou escrever sobre isso porque, se eu fizer, não terei de pensar no assunto. E não quero ficar triste.

Não sei o que há de errado comigo. É como se tudo o que pudesse fazer é escrever esse palavreado para evitar a depressão.

I just remembered what made me think of all this. I'm going to write it down because maybe if I do I won't have to think about it. And I won't get upset.

I read on the back cover that the author was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. She barely spoke English, but she wanted to be a great writer. I thought that was very admirable, so I sat down and tried to write a story. Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight. That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one.

I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

If there's a better book than this, I haven't written it.

Words cannot describe all the things I have left to write

Writing bridges conscious and subconscious mind. It is a psycho-neuromuscular activity and literally imprints the brain.

Many red devils ran from my heart And out upon the page, They were so tiny The pen could mash them. And many struggled in the ink. It was strange To write in this red muck Of things from my heart.

many red devils ran from my heart and out upon the page, they were so tiny the pen could mash them. And many struggled in the ink. It was strange to write in this red much of things from my heart.

Fill in the blanks, you'd have a novel; keep it short and it's a play by Beckett.

In order to maintain a capacity for astonishment, the poet can never anticipate the identity of the reader. Once the writer knows for whom he or she is writing, then the writer becomes too conscious of trying to influence that person and to interfere with the intuitive process.

But the hardest task in any writing is to present the truth so it can be seen as true. One cannot just give the history of an event in a straightforward manner and expect it to be believed. That history must have a shape. It must have direction and movement.

Poets who remain poets have, presumably, worked through the terrors of influence, and are willing to acknowledge their debts by using them in order to go their own way. They've learned what Thomas Mann knew: "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

I am often asked, "What is the secret to being a successful author?" My reply, always, is: "Marry an English major.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?