All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.”

“Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.”

“If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.”

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.”

“A migraine is the cockblock of writing.”

“I’ll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette. ”

“It’s not how great the ideas are. It’s about how you write them, to make them great.”

“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.”

“I’m not trying to please anyone. I’m just trying to write a damn book.”

“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

“All stories are love stories.”

“In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul”

“الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة”

“Don’t look back until you’ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in … the edit.”[Ten rules for writing fiction (part two), The Guardian, 20 February 2010]”

“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”