519 quotes found
“I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the ...”
“There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’...”
“Knowing that others want to read my writing is the greatest inspiration to write.”
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”
“i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.”
“If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.”
“The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps...”
“Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.”
“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
“HOW TO DRIVE A WRITER CRAZY“1. When he starts to outline a story, immediately give him several stories just like it to read and tell him three other plots. This makes his own story and his feeling ...”
“Sometimes I wonder if novel writers aren’t completely f**ked in the head. ~ Drew Stirling”
“Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shift...”
“Writers live twice.”
“How....will I ever truly depict you?You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”
“I have a great book. It’s called Stantasyland. Except I don’t have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.”
“Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.”
“Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.”
“I swooned again – I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.”
“I couldn’t admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck ’em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.”
“The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.”
