156 quotes found
“Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone...”
“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," a...”
“There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean hell, I know that.”
“Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.”
“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”
“When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.”
“At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sen...”
“Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.”
“Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.”
“A writer seeks to discover a lucid state of creative consciousness uncoiling from a boule of internal disequilibrium and dutifully attempts to bridge that cavernous divide between the known and the...”
“Why the tag of aspiring writer be the wishful clich? Its like a bumper sticker. Say it! I am a Writer. Period. We may all have a target and gradation toward successes, a personal illusion/perceptio...”
“Writing is one way to explore new ideas and by doing so blunt the sense of personal unrest and discontent. Writing assist us recognize, explore, and accept the patent absurdity of life. Writing fac...”
“Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a persons level of consciousness. Every degree of increased cons...”
“Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.”
“Theres really only one good writing habit: You must write constantly.”
“Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.”
“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossedaway from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons away and reorganized the good bits on his plate. Those pie...”
“I remember when I first began writing, I would spend maybe five or six hours on perhaps two paragraphs, and at the end of the day, not only were the paragraphs pretty terrible but I was also exhaus...”
“I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!”
“But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.”
