20 quotes found
“You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.”
“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”
“She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.”
“I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself.”
“Writer's block is just another name for fear.”
“With poetry and writing, the question isnt do you know the right words?.The real question is, can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?”
“Whenever I encounter writers block, I stop writing with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.”
“Its easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. Whats difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.”
“Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.”
“We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.”
“If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some peoples only reason for not abandoning e-books.”
“Life's like a book: What matters is the hook. Be it short or long, just live it strong. Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!”
“I learn my world through writing.”
“Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.”
“Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.”
“There's a darkness to everyone, you just have to let it out to see the world in new eyes.”
“This whole show vs tell concept both bewilders and challenges my mind.”
“With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”.The real question is, “can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?”
“Whenever I encounter writer’s block, I stop writing … with my hands; and I then start writing with my legs.”
“It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.”
