Writing Quotes

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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can mana

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Michael Cunningham

Life On Fiction Writing

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Life Writing Paper

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice c

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

Humor Funny Inspirational Writing

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

Kevin James Breaux

Truth Art Writing

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Truth Writing

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Kevis Hendrickson

Writing Advice Inspirational Writing

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Life Poetry Love Women Writing Inspiration

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, th

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Anger Inspirational Writing

My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child

My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don't always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don't know what to do about it. Other times when I'm so proud of them I could bust.

Inspirational Writing

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

Love People Television Writing

When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human

When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.

Inspirational Observation Writing

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entir

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth Writing Authorship Art Of Literature

Her maktul katilinde ya?amaya devam eder.

Her maktul katilinde ya?amaya devam eder.

Experience Life Imagination Truth Philosophy Writing

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much a

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

Inspirational Writing Humorous Artistic

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know wh

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

Alone Inspirational Writing Lonely

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking a

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Inspirational Writing

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Life Inspirational Writing

All stories are love stories.

All stories are love stories.

Robert McLiam Wilson

Life Love Writing

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of wh

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands. (Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, JERUSALEM POST, Feb. 15, 2009)

Haruki Murakami

Truth Writing Writers Novelists

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

James Lee Burke

Art Learning Love World Learn Writing Lovers Better Beginning Write Fire Quarrel End Robert Frost