All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.”

“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

“I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

“To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.”

“We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”

“Chase your dreams until you catch them…and then dream, catch, and dream again! ”

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you’ll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don’t display great talent and have some success right away, they won’t succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”

“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.”

“I see things, that’s all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.”

“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”

“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”

“كل الكتاب خبثاء ، وكل القراء أغبياء يصدقونهم فيعيشون حياة غير حياتهم ، سرقة مع سبق الإصرار للوقت والعمر الجميل ولايشكوأحد ”

“Have you thought of an ending?””Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.””Oh, that won’t do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?””It will do well, if it ever came to that.””Ah! And where will they live? That’s what I often wonder.”