Quotes About Writing

publishing is essentially the same, whether you go traditional or self: write a good book, start writing your next book, get published or self-publish, market, and word of mouth makes or breaks you.

when Twitter announced the number of permissible characters in a single tweet was being doubled from 140 to 280, Trump told Porter he thought the change made sense on one level. Now he would be able to flesh out his thoughts and add more depth. "It's a good thing," Trump said, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

It's a good thing, Trump said, but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

It's a good thing," Trump said, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the truth was that I had never put myself forward as a writer, I didn't like the idea of the 'professional writer'; I just wanted to write. But that was not how the world worked...

I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.

U.S. Navy SEAL Jack Carr (ret.) was once again incredibly helpful with details for this book. He also continues to be one hell of a thriller author. If you haven't checked out his books yet, do it. You'll love his writing. Thank you, Jack.

I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.

Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.

a book of magic should be written by a practising magician, rather than a theoretical magician or a historian of magic.

I hope you will write occasionally? Some token of your impressions?" "Oh! I shall not spare you. It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends. Expect long descriptions of everything.

write down what I observe in my notebooks. I do this for two reasons. The first is that Writing inculcates habits of precision and carefulness. The second is to preserve whatever knowledge I possess for you, the Sixteenth Person.

It was a dark day. A chill wind blew snowflakes against the window of Mr Norrell's library where Childermass sat writing business letters. Though it was only ten o'clock in the morning the candles were already lit. The only sounds were the coals being consumed in the grate and the scratch of Childermass's pen against the paper.

Ah, but, sir," said Lascelles, "it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.

Todo viajero tiene derecho a desahogar su frustración por la menor contrariedad escribiendo a sus amigos.

Without the journals I would be all at sea.

He stood motionless for a long moment. I had told him to reflect on his wickedness. Was that what he was doing? Suddenly he knelt and began to write rapidly. No one has ever written to me before.

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

Fare lo scrittore è diventato un mestiere come un altro; un mestiere in cui furbizia, abilità e capacità di offrirsi ai media spesso suppliscono la presenza di un vero talento.

La verdadera escritura se encuentra en otro lugar, en las profundidades, en el núcleo del fuego de la tierra, en el corazón, en las tinieblas del hombre. Procede y se mantiene en equilibrio entre esos dos extremos. Por eso cansa, agota, daña la salud.

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

Empieza por tener un diario -en una libreta o bien por ordenador- en el que escribir sobre los sucesos, retos, conflictos, sorpresas y aprendizajes de tu vida cotidiana.

The writer's job is to write the screenplay and keep the reader turning pages, not to determine how a scene or sequence should be filmed. You don't have to tell the director and cinematographer and film editor how to do their jobs. Your job is to write the screenplay, to give them enough visual information so they can bring those words on the page into life, in full 'sound and fury,' revealing strong visual and dramatic action, with clarity, insight, and emotion.