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“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing cardand somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
“When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.”
“We write by the light of every story we have ever read. ”
“Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
“Writing is the geometry of the soul. ”
“All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams, fantasies, everything I have ever read, all of that has been chucked onto the ...”
“The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yours...”
“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off”
“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your...”
“The main thing is to writefor the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lustthat imagines its haven like your hands at nightdreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.You are fasted now, light-headed, dange...”
“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.”
“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”
“Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.”
“It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I c...”
“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.”
“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
“There are very few innocent sentences in writing.”
“Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of cases, exactly as I imagined it -- if not better. I've been doing this a long ...”
“it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It'stherapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think aboutlife.”
