All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.”

“The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.”

“You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting… It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.”

“Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”

“Here is a lesson in creative writing.First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I’m kidding.For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I’m kidding.We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I’m kidding.If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”

“Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.”

“Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.”

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”(Letter 16, 1657)”

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”

“Why am I compelled to write?… Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger… To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit… Finally I write because I’m scared of writing, but I’m more scared of not writing.”

“It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head.So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads.That’s why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader’s relief is.And that’s why your bookshave such power and strength.You publish with shorth!(Shorth is better than length.)”

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”