All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

“So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don’t know what work they are accomplishing within you?”

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”

“A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.”

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.”

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.”

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

“You can make anything by writing.”

“You must write every single day of your life… 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… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”