All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“Inside” ChildrenInside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by “acting out” in order to try to get our attention. Your inner 5-year-old is not going to patiently wait as you learn intricate metalworking techniques or study impressionist painting. Yet, your inner 10-year-old may be perfectly suited to learn and observe new skills.What’s really needed is parenting of these inside children so that we bring them to age-appropriate activities.”

“There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more”

“The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.”

“Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.”

“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”

“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”

“The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.”

“If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.”

“How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.’Is that a Luo expression?’ I asked. Sayid’s face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,’ he said, ‘but actually I must admit that I read this particular expression in a book by Chinua Achebe. The Nigerian writer. I like his books very much. He speaks the truth about Africa’s predicament. the Nigerian, the Kenya – it is the same. We share more than divides us.”

“If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.”

“What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.”

“When I’m writing, I’m waiting to see somebody, and I’m waiting to hear them. It’s almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.”

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. ”