All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”

“Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.”

“As much as I like it when a book I’m writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.”

“It’s always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”

“One hasn’t become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.”

“The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.”

“I’m either going to be a writer or a bum.”

“There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.”

“Writing is beautiful, like putting on a gold suit and going to sleep in it.”

“First and foremost, I am me. I’m real. I don’t write to impress. I write to express.”

“When you write, you are telling a story…to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself…over and over again.”

“In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.”

“I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”

“The music lets me see the story but the story doesn’t let me write the words.”