92 quotes found
“Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow,...”
“Writing doesnt get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, youre probably still learning the craft. You havent perfected your style or landed upon your voice. You havent learned...”
“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”
“I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.”
“And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a...”
“All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten...”
“Mostbut not allof the writers I knew then were young men who cherished their independence, were unconcerned about job security, and were serious about their writing. They didnt want to be anyones e...”
“While I'm writing, I'm far away;and when I come back, I've gone.”
“I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.”
“Dont write what you knowwhat you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests youand interests you deeplyand your readers will catch fire at your words.”
“Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.”
“So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writ...”
“What I don't write is as important as what I write.”
“There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.”
“Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.”
“Ive come to the end of another book alive. At times like this Im always at a loss for words.”
“Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.”
“I never really feel that Im stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, theres no such thing as writers block, I think that theres terror that can silence you. But if you can think of it a...”
“Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, t...”
“The paradox of writing is that youre trying to use words to express what words cant express.”
