Quotes About Writing

De peligro e mengua si quieres seer quito, guardate de tu lengua, e mas de tu escripto. Negar lo que se dize a veces a lugar, mas, si escrito yaze, non se puede negar.

She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.

ploaia rapaia pe geamuri ca o ma?in? de scris ruginita care înnebunise pe nea?teptate

Comparé esta pieza con la anterior y acepté una evidencia emocionante: mi procedimiento mostraba ser de una eficacia aterradora. No solamente conservaba la personalidad de mi escritura, sino que además, al sublimarla de manera agresiva, permitía presagiar combinaciones infinitas.

Un filósofo de la vida debe echar siempre mano del lapicero porque no tiene derecho a que sus pensamientos se desperdicien. De lo contrario se convierte en un pensador inofensivo, como un león que ha perdido sus colmillos, y no hay cosa peor que un león obligado a régimen vegetariano.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

One thing Henry found especially lacking were my descriptions of death. "They read like a eunuch writing about an orgy" is how he put it.

His dictum was, "Let not a single hour pass in which you do not devote yourself to prayer, reading, writing or some other useful work.

When I wrote my first book, I wrote all of it to a short list of very specific musical selections I sought out, music I found would bring out the right emotion or the right kind of expression in whatever I was writing at the moment.

Acknowledgements Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen

I do my best impression of a pen and when every problem looks like a page I commit ink to paper

She could possibly hit the best-seller list if she sold it as a novel, though.

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

In some ways, I don't feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I've tried to ignore that part of me, I've gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

I don't think we have a future. I know we do. I want to marry you and have kids and be a stay-at-home writer dad while you take Boston journalism by storm. I want to wake up beside you every day for the rest of my life.

Don't be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then putting your words away for weeks or months–and then returning to your work to polish it some more.

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.

She read it over one last time, not really satisfied, but it was the truth. Even if it still had some scratch-outs.