All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.”

“A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.”

“كيف ليَ أن أكتب قصيدة تخدش وجه العالموتدير دفّة القمر؟”

“Write when you can’t stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!”

“You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal.”

“Each thing you add to your story is a drop of paint falling into clear water; it spreads through and colors everything.”

“We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don’t.”

“In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.”

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

“If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain – and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.”

“I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I’d known. But I tried anyway.”

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washèd it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.”

“And if you don’t live, you have nothing to write about.”

“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”