All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn.”

“That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the preface; on writing for people around the world]”

“The famed author Robert Lewis Stevenson declared that he’d trained his Brownies to be writers. As he slept, they would whisper fantastic plots in his ear — for example, the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and the diabolical Mr. Hyde, and that episode in “Olalla” when a young man from an old Spanish family bites his sister’s hand.”

“Silently I dance a dance of chaos to the rhythm of a dying sun”

“Polysyllables obfuscate a preponderant ignorance with so much more style and panache.”

“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.”

“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.”

“Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.”

“God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, ‘God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them.” God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch – man created in the image of what? the animals? – the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.”

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.”

“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.”

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she’d written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.”

“Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.”

“Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.”

“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that’s too much pressure and you’ll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun and a good way to get your feet wet.”