All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“dฉันรู้สึกว่างานเขียนหนังสือเหมาะกับฉัน ไม่ต้องวุ่นวายกับใครมีเพียงกระดาษ ดินสอ ตัวหนังสือ ตัวเรา ชีวิตกับความฝันแต่สำคัญต้องอ่านให้มาก ครุ่นคิดให้มาก และใช้ชีวิตให้มากไม่มีใครที่ไหนสอนเรื่องพวกนี้ได้หรอก มันบ่มเพราะขึ้นด้วยประสบการณ์และเวลาและไม่มีใครรู้หรอก ตัวเขาเองจะเขียนได้หรือเปล่า นอกจากจะลงมือเขียนเสียทีสำหรับฉันแล้ว งานเขียนหนังสือไม่ยากเลยแต่ที่มันยากเย็นจนเลือดตาแทบกระเด็น คือเขียนให้ดีต่างหาก”

“Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.”

“i just know no one is a friend like writing .”

“His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah’s mind instantly censored it.”

“How is something authorised as ‘feng shui compliant’ he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?”

“The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.”

“Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author’s role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.”

“You alone own your story. Do not let another tell it, and if you find yourself in the company of one determined to rewrite your words or own your narrative, fight like hell until you hold it again. There is little in life that is solely ours. Your story is one of those priceless few things. It is beyond precious. The people meant to be In your life will only strengthen your voice, not take it from you.”

“Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise and revise. We are always in the midst of our own becoming.”

“Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”

“We’ll often fear what we don’t understand.”

“Writing temporarily arrests the relentless passage of time, but nothing can halt the propensity of passing days to bring change to the corporeal structure of human beings.”

“Even amid our problems we can find words that will help us explore, be mindful, grow, and create a better way of living.”

“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.”

“Writing is a temporal form of creating forever.”