All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

“Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

“When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: ‘House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you’re working. Tell them it’s research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”

“Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall.”

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”

“She wasn’t broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.”

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”

“Anger … it’s a paralyzing emotion … you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don’t think it’s any of that — it’s helpless … it’s absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers … and anger doesn’t provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.”[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”

“I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”