I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you? get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
I write to reach eternity
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay
Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
Writing poetry is a state of free float
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
...kapag binisita ka ng idea, gana o inspirasyon, kailangan mong itigil LAHAT ng ginagawa mo para lang di masayang ang pagkakataon. Walang sandali lang o teka muna. Dahil pag lumagpas ang maikling panahong yon, kahit mag-umpog ka ng ulo sa pader mahihirapan ka nang maghabol.
If you would not be forgotton as soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
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