All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“Inspiration comes of working every day.”

“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”

“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.”

“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.”

“Writers don’t make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don’t work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck’s book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man’s stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth so much more.”

“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”

“If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.”

“She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.”

“You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don’t even think about being a writer.”

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.”

“Definition of rock journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t think, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.”

“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.”

“I had to learn to live without you and I couldn’t make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.”

“If I lived a million lives, I would’ve felt a million feelings and I still would’ve fallen a million times for you.”