All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.”

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”

“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”

“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”

“All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.”

“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most.”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.”

“I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I’ve died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created.”

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”