All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“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.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

“But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“You always get more respect when you don’t have a happy ending.”