1,322 quotes found
“A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.”
“You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”
“I just write whenever I can.”
“Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.”
“There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.”
“Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.”
“Rejection sucks. It sucks every time, whether it's a big suck or a little suck. But it's part of the process. It's part of being a writer. It's a badge that says 'I'm serious about this, and I'm se...”
“Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you...”
“The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so its good to include something real in your fiction.”
“We slip into a dream, forgetting the room we're sitting in, forgetting it's lunchtime or time to go to work. We recreate, with minor and for the most part unimportant changes, the vivid and continu...”
“Most people say, Show, dont tell, but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, theyre like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears int...”
“A good writer reveals beauty in the mundane and truth in tragedy. Words are a tool; a currency of the mind, and the best writers weave passages into our hearts that our bones remember.”
“Bye-bye. Nice knowing you. But if you are waiting for that perfect idea to strike like lightning during a dust storm (I live in New Mexico), you could be waiting a long time. Ideas are everywhere. ...”
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her or himself, the words were able to connect to a reader's heart.”
“...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...”
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.”
“In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The arti...”
“Writing is a lonely business.”
“If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.”
“We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.”
