All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“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.”

“Depression was my body’s way of grieving the loss of my childhood dreams. Writing was my imagination’s way of redefining them.”

“When it’s ‘Write Time’, it’s the right time!”

“Hard life… write more! Life sucks… write more! No matter what don’t stop. Keep to the grind and don’t let up. Somewhere out there is your ramp to success. Forget about the exits or the shortcuts along the way. Stay on the highway and when the ramp comes… take it and go!”

“My life went from “You don’t know My Story” to “Let me tell you my story” to “This is my Story” to “I didn’t chose this story” it’s only right that now that I’ve told my story, that you know that I am grateful for my story.”

“Writing in a new style never hurt anybody. Upside: if it does, you can write about it!”

“Stretch your writing muscles. Maybe the sophisticated technique nagging at you is something you’re just naturally good at. How else will you know?”

“A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.”

“Writer’s Block is just an excuse by people who don’t write for not writing.”

“Current “literature” [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with no apparent resolution.”

“Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.”

“Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled…in a unique and inimitable way.”

“A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.”

“Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.”