All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”

“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”

“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”

“Nothing’s a better cure for writer’s block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen.”

“When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.”

“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.”

“The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don’t listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won’t be one of them. Don’t listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don’t have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers ‘someday.’ When they are out of high school, when they’ve finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That’s okay. I think we’ve all ‘been there, done that.’ It all starts with the writing. ”

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

“Written words can also sing.”

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”