1,322 quotes found
“They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started.”
“I have no talent; it's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”
“One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.”
“I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.”
“I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.”
“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.”
“Dont live with a lover or roommate who doesnt respect your work.”
“In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.”
“What a lover of words and their beauty discovers. . .is that there is literally a word for every object, material or immaterial, every relation, and every process that human beings have experienced...”
“People on the outside think theres something magical about writing”
“Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.”
“When you feel that creeping self-doubt, acknowledge it. Write down your feelings in your journal... and then continue with your writing.”
“Being a writer is not just about typing. Its also about surviving the rollercoaster of the creative journey.”
“When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.”
“You know too little and it doesn't exist. You know too much and it doesn't exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens ...”
“For the curious, I write”
“I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?”
“Writing... is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you...You don't only listen to the person speaking to you acr...”
“When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language. Thus I am now me again, I am here, I go about my ordinary business, I have ...”
“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore”
