Writing Quotes

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I want to write about people who dream and wait for the nigh

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Haruki Murakami

Love Writing Dream

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence;

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

Beauty Innocence Writing

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

Truth Writing

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Jeanette Winterson

Attitude Inspirational Writing

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

Writing On Writing

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway

For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously in a reti

For a week or a fortnight I can write prodigiously in a retired place (as at Broadstairs), and a day in London sets me up again and starts me. But the toil and labour of writing, day after day, without that magic lantern, is IMMENSE!!... My figures seem disposed to stagnate without crowds about them.

Charles Dickens

Writing Letters London

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look arou

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Life Time Game Writing Contention

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

Poetry Writing

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough not to think about all the things that might go wrong.

Author Writing Dream

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is tha

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Writing Wilde Oscar

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is ve

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wi

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Writing

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are t

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.

Writing

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Men Thepublic Writing Aliteracy Self Publishing

This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one

This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid a straight statement, which is very different from breaking so-called rules of syntax or grammar to make an efffect which can be obtained in no other way, the writer takes a longer time to be known as a fake and other writers who are afflicted by the same necessity will praise him in their own defense. True mysticism should not be confused with incompetence in writing which seeks to mystify where there is no mystery but is really only the necessity to fake to cover lack of knowledge or the inability to state clearly. Mysticism implies a mystery and there are many mysteries; but incompetence is not one of them; nor is overwritten journalism made literature by the injection of a false epic qulaity. Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing Bad Writing

You can make anything out of writing.

You can make anything out of writing.

Writing

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

Writing

All writing is rewriting.

All writing is rewriting.

John Green Author Inspirational Writing

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of cr

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.

Creativity Writing Process Writing Extinction Writer S Block