All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“Write what should not be forgotten.”

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ”

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don’t like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”

“She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach.”

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”