115 quotes found
“As I empty my head, I feel wonderful and alive. Sometimes my creation is as beautiful as the feeling it produces, but most often it has to go through many changes before it is considered good enoug...”
“Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, f...”
“The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely mans most fatal creation, the devils kitsch bitch. It was God, with his ...”
“Look back, but never look down.”
“Editing ones writing is as easy as lighting a match while riding a bicycle.”
“And yet Curts a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, thats all.”
“I had decided that I wanted to earn my living as a writer and the only place in Waterbury where they paid you for writing was at the local newspaper. My opportunity came when the paper had an openi...”
“Curt, my husband, is a writer, and hell never write again. Thats our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, youre married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who cou...”
“When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm ones mood, collect ones thoughts, and have a plan.”
“Putting pen to paper without first deciding the route and pace at which to scribe is like setting off on a bicycle without first checking the tyres.”
“A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetimes memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jewellers window.”
“Each time I write, I reaffirm my soul.”
“She looked at the empty page, which remained blank, apart from the small wet dots from her tears, for hours. Her mind was a turmoil of sadness, rage, fear and all those emotions that gave her inspi...”
“There is always, always, always something to write about.”
“Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.”
“Every book I've read appears in my writing.”
“...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.”
“On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a l...”
“I write because my imagination won't let me quit. And because I want to read what I wrote and share what I've written.”
“...ugly interlopers threaten to choke off your story, depriving it of much-needed nutrition, sunlight and water. Identify and cut those weeds the life-sucking adverbs, the shade-killing descriptio...”
