Writing Quotes

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But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was dong in the reader's heart?

Money Materialism Heart Writing Process Writing Caring Reaching Out Reaching People What Matters

It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and at

It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

Charles Dickens

Friends Writing

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

History Writing

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, an

Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff?

Writing

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living au

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-

Ernest Hemingway

Criticism Writing

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong wo

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

Words Writing On Writing

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Writing

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writer

As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

Writing

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

Writing

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of t

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Writing

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getti

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Writing

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

Ernest Hemingway

Rules Writing

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all tha

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Writing

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words an

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

Humor Funny Writing

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-min

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Obscurity Writing

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully chart

And I thought, eight years ago, when I began carefully charting the progress of American Gods, nervously dipping my toes into the waters of blogging, would I have imagined a future in which, instead of recording the vicissitudes of bringing a book into the world, I would be writing about not-even-interestingly missing cups of cold camomile tea? And I thought, yup. Sounds about right.Happy Eighth birthday, blog.

Writing

If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn fr

If you write books, you go on one page at a time. We turn from all we know and all we fear. We study catalogues, watch football games, choose Sprint over AT

Writing

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, g

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.

Moment Writing Magic Picture Descriptive

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Music Writing

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Change Writing Impact