All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”