All Quotes By Tag: On-writing

“Write what should not be forgotten.”

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won’t get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.”

“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”

“In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”