133 quotes found
“If I don't write every single day, I feel like I am off balance. My mind does not work correctly. I actually feel a sensation like an ache going on inside me equivalent to when a person misses a lo...”
“Half hating, half loving, this free time between writing books.”
“Only my characters truly know what's happening - I just hold the pen”
“I can't do anything else until the words in my head are set free.”
“At last something important had occurred, something that she ought to write down. But she did not know how to explain what had happened, how everything had changed in just one day, how someone she ...”
“Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.”
“Too many stories. Not enough Tim.”
“Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.”
“Every time I write about life, I must kill and eat the actual event. I mean to say that my words are scavengers who need to devour lifeless substance if they are to survive as non-fiction. The even...”
“Writing helps maintain my sanity or else I would lose my mind.”
“I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to...”
“Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by...”
“You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.”
“People say, What advice do you have for people who want to be writers? I say, they dont really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and theyre gonna do it. Those people who know that the...”
“Writing isn't something you do because you feel like it. You never feel like it. You write because there's a rat in your brain chewing up the spirals of your DNA and you want to get the words down ...”
“The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people youre a writer. Thats still considered cool.”
“Ninety percent of writing is about listening.”
“Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind”
“I regret always writing, writing. I gave my kid the whole plastic bag of marshmallows,so i could have 20 minutes to write. I sat at my mother's deathbed, writing.I did swab her mouth with water, an...”
“Writing is like a blind man building a stone house with a limited amount of space and time. Brick after brick, row after row, feeling his way round and round. Turning stones into walls, rooms and t...”
