All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don’t want to go. You look where you don’t want to look.”

“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn’t write!”

“I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.”

“Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it’s shit. Write some more. Repeat.”

“It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.”

“When a day goes by and I haven’t written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.”

“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.”

“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

“Basically, that’s why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”

“Writing is the best anti-depressant.”

“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer’s block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn’t the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: ‘This is where my story begins.’”

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”

“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.”

“Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.”

“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”