Quotes About Writing

M'amour, m'amour what do I love and where are you? That I lost my center fighting the world The Dreams clash and are shattered- and that I tried to make a paradiso terrestre. I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

Our live experiences fixed in aphorisms stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart's blood, as we write with it, darkens into ink.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

Oh, Joe, can't producers ever be wrong? I'm a good writer—honest. I thought you were going to play fair.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

What is spoken flies, what is written never dies.

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

Let me counsel you to remember that a lady, whether so called from birth or only from fortune, should never degrade herself by being put on a level with writers, and such sort of people.

Philosophy should only be written as poetry.

Neither they nor Warren Rochelle (' Dual Attractions', 1999) nor Chris West (' Queer Fears and Critical Orthodoxies', 2002) (who focuses on homosexuality) ground their critiques in the periods in which Heinlein was writing, the editors he was writing for, or the librarians who could decide whether books did or did not make it onto the shelves in a period in which libraries were only just starting to retreat from the position of major purchasers.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

Being forced to write clearly means, first, you have to think clearly.

the central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill.

Write, and write well. But most of all write truthfully, that's enough, for the truth always hurts the wicked and evil.

I've always told people how important it is to have a plan because, "That's the greatest piece of fiction you will ever write.

Getting two sentences together is exhilarating. It is heaven.

I do use husbands a bit (in books). It's what writers of this kind do, actually. I am quite careful to try to keep the family out of my writing. You find, on the whole, that men will forgive you everything if you say they are good in bed and the women if you say they are beautiful. It's the way to turn away wrath.

Research says that 80 per cent of all submitted manuscripts are rejected, and I have no reason to doubt it. But ask yourself exactly what category (or categories) yours may have fallen into – what pigeonhole.

Writers create Houses of the Imagination, from whose doors the generations greet each other.

Novels do not drop ready written from the skies. Your couple of hours' reading is my half year's work.