
Quotes about Writing
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Quotes about Writing
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Here’s a quick “rule of thumb”: Don’t annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they’ll do to you.
A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.
Writing is thinking on paper.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyze yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Never lend books — nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.