528 quotes found
“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this aft...”
“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
“Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on ...”
“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
“A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.”
“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating...”
“Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.”
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque, choosing a profession and practicing it, grabbing one's share of the co...”
“Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.”
“Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. ...”
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life ...”
“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treati...”
“To present a whole world that doesnt exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend were polymaths. Thats just the act of all good writing.”
“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”
“What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're...”
“One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.”
“All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.”
“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.”
“Writers are archeologists of themselves.”
“Come, lets be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.”
