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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb ...”
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ”
“Description begins in the writers imagination, but should finish in the readers.”
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating ...”
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither re...”
“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
“All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.”
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
