All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

“Writing is prayer.”

“Books are for nothing but to inspire”

“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.”

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

“The thing I write will be the thing I write.”

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”

“If you can’t talk about it, Write about it!”

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”

“take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning”

“I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.”

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”