All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“ …when writing, always hook the reader with your first sentence…in love, never settle…value yourself first and this will help you to value others…life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest…everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok…”

“[On writing:] “There’s a great quote by Julius Irving that went, ‘Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.'”(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”

“Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.”

“CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it.”

“Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

“In a way, literature is true than life,’ he said to himself. ‘On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that’s why it’s false. But it’s damned satisfying. In life, you’re constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.”

“You know, everybody’s ignorant, just on different subjects.”

“and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn’t anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it”

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

“The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.”

“What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don’t seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don’t seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I’m very proud.”

“Tell the story that’s been growing in your heart, the characters you can’t keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning.”

“Every writer I know has trouble writing. ”