All Quotes By Tag: Writing
“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.”
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“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.)”
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“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.”
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“The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.”
“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn’t want to be ordinary.”
“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
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“Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.”
“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”
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“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
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“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”
“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
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“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
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“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.”
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“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”
“Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.”