1,322 quotes found
“Put the baby on the paper.”
“Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.”
“Rituals help us change modes.”
“I always had plenty of ideas. I didnt exactly have them. They grewlittle by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little ...”
“I was reading, absorbed in an assault on K2 by a team of Japanese mountaineers, my lungs constricting in the thin burning air, the deadly sting of wind-lashed ice in my face, when the record -- Le ...”
“When you travel with your family, you may not get the volume of work done you would if you were alone, but you can still do something while recharging. If nothing else, you can gather your own thou...”
“The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.”
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mhlenberg.”
“Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer" without a doubt ensures one a status of far greate...”
“And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my mind to go on with the undertaking. I would fi...”
“Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.”
“Being an artist doesn't take much. Just everything you got. Which means of course that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it's no big deal. They are one...”
“My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, 'Me next! Go on! My turn!' I have to select. And once I have chosen, the ...”
“The Fiction defense. Sometimes I just need to use it.”
“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
“The journey from the head to the hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to writeand many of the people who do writeget lost.”
“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”
“You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.”
“A writer whos a pro can take on almost any assignment, but if he or she doesnt much care about the subject, I try to dissuade the writer, as in that case the book can be just plain hard labor.”
“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out of my passions. And I write to make peace with my own contradictory nature. For me, writin...”
