All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. ”

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.”

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

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

“You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying in the road.”

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

“You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”