Quotes About Writing

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Scrisul nu este un ?ip?t nemodulat,el cere vigoare,construc?ie,un pas înd?r?rt fa?? de propria-?i stare.Trebuie s? ie?i din propria-?i dram? pentru a o exprima-

A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.

The day my father shook my hand, I knew I was a writer.

I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time.

Imagine getting to be one of those people who actually gets paid to talk about literature.

In 2005, people from the U.S. sent, on average, four hundred sixty text messages a year. Texts were treated and written more like telegrams than like conversations. The brevity lent these early texts an almost poetry.

documentaries Indie Game: The Movie, directed by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot, and GTFO, directed by Shannon Sun-Higginson. I read Indie Games by Bounthavy Suvilay after I finished writing, and it's a beautiful book for those looking to see how artful games can

He writes a paragraph a day. A paragraph for Maya. It isn't much, but it's what he has left to give. He

Maya, novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story. Master the short story and you'll have mastered the world, he thinks just before he drifts off to sleep. I should write this down, he thinks. He reaches for a pen, but there isn't one anywhere near the toilet bowl he is resting against.

En fråga jag har tänkt en hel del på är varför det är så mycket enklare att skriva om det vi ogillar/inte tå/inte tycker håller måttet än det som vi älskar (s. 247).

Above all, Ms. Loman, I find slim literary memoirs about little old men whose little old wives have died from cancer to be absolutely intolerable. No matter how well written the sales rep claims they are. No matter how many copies you promise I'll sell on Mother's Day.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give. I'm only sorry it took me so long to read it.

Los escritores no se acuerdan de todo lo que escriben. Sería imposible.

Es menos satisfactorio un giro si se ve venir? ¿Un giro que no podemos prevenir es síntoma de mala construcción? Hay que plantearse estas cosas al escribir.

Có má»™t câu h?i ta Ä'ã nghÄ© r?t nhi?u, r?ng t?i sao vi?t v? nh?ng th? ta không thích l?i dá»… dàng hÆ¡n vi?t v? nh?ng gì ta yêu nh?.

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

YESTERDAY I FOUND a note I had written to myself, in the piles of outlines and narrative maps that are a writer's building blocks. "Let Her Die," I had written at the top of a legal pad, a shorthand reminder to get to that part of the story. Then I saw it the next day and half gasped; for a moment it was as though someone else had given me this instruction. Let her die: a three-word definition of the arc of grief if ever I heard one, and it takes a long time.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

The Writer's Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.