Quotes About Writing

At the end of my second year I understood something I'd been incubating for several months: that my law studies were of no interest or use to me whatsoever, for my only obsession was reading fiction and, finally, learning how to write it.

La buena prosa debe ser tan precisa como el verso, e igual de sonora" escribe Flaubert.

Las crónicas de Indias, como lo sabe todo el que conoce el discurso de García Márquez al recibir el Premio Nobel, pueden muy bien ser el verdadero orden de la literatura latinoamericana.

I swear, I have really tried to care about genres or categories, but I find myself sadly unable to do so. I will enjoy anything, anything, as long as it comes written in language that is personal to the point of idiosyncratic, euphonious, revealing and precise. I avoid any kind of writing that doesn't fill these requirements. I don't care which genre it belongs to.

El único modo posible para el novelista de rescatar la novela consiste en abstenerse de escribirlas

Çizgili Ka??t verirlerse,yan çevirip yaz.

Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.

You should really stay true to your own style. When I first started writing, everybody said to me, 'Your style just isn't right because you don't use the really flowery language that romances have.' My romances - compared to what's out there - are very strange, very odd, very different. And I think that's one of the reasons they're selling.

Not only are magical texts among the oldest surviving pieces of literature, but many scholars and anthropologists suggest that it was the need to record spells and divination results that stimulated the very birth of writing.

There's writing power in one word sentences and one sentence paragraphs. Wise authors use them. -Judith Briles

Make notes—I've lost more material than I've ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not still up there in one's brain. It's in outer space and it ain't coming back.

You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested, "Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

Everything I do is autobiographical. I'm into old ladies because I've been one for some considerable time now.

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I can write in Latin, French, and common English. I will not, however, write in German; it is a barbaric tongue that curdles the ink.

Be aware that every word you know is going to try to sneak into your manuscript.

If you truly are a would be writer then there will be no need for you to search for ideas. Everything that happens to you, your family and friends can end up as a storyline. Whichever way you look at it love, envy, despair and so on have been happening since the dawn of time; all you have to do is get the setting and characters right.

Story of My Life absorbs all of Casanova's pent-up creativity from the day in 1789 he begins writing it as an act of desperation, 'the only remedy to keep from going mad or dying with grief'. Unable to break out of his Bohemian prison in the same way he once famously broke out of Venice's Leads, he escapes in the only way possible: by time-travelling through his past.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.

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

Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.