All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing… I am a recording instrument… I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”… Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function… I am not an entertainer…”

“Do you like reading? It’s the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.”

“We writers are a crazy group. I can’t think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.”

“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”

“… a writer concocts a different story for every reader.”

“Novel writing is like heroin addiction; it takes everything you’ve got.”

“I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It’s not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as bad and unnatural as dumping your adjectives and your adverbs because Prof. B. wants you to. What does he know about it? What do you really know about your own wit?I’ve been sitting here tearing up notes to you. I keep starting to say things like ‘This one is wonderfully constructed,’ and ‘The conversation between the two cops is terrific.’ So I’m hedging. I’m not sure why. I started to get a little nervous right after you began to read. It sounded like the beginning of something your arch-enemy Bob B. calls a rattling good story. Don’t you think he would call this a step in the right direction? Doesn’t that worry you? Even what is funny about the woman on the back of the truck doesn’t sound like something you think is funny. It sounds much more like something that you think is universally considered funny. I feel gypped. Does that make you mad? You can say our relatedness spoils my judgement. It worries me enough. But I’m also just a reader. Are you a writer or just a writer of rattling good stories. I mind getting a rattling good story from you.”

“A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.”

“but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that’s really even more important in the long run than life and death.”

“Writing is like life: it goes on.”

“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That’s when your writing becomes irresistible.”

“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”

“Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.”

“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”

“And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler’s L.A. to Dickens’s London.”