All Quotes By Tag: Writing
“Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.”
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“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
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“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
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“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
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“I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that’s all.”
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“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
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“If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.”
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“Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.”
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“Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It’s a schizophrenic business.”
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“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
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“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.”
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“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
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“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
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