All Quotes By Tag: Writing

“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer’s life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?”

“Let your story grow. Let it surprise you, and it will certainly surprise your readers.”

“Which is him?” The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.”

“Both reading and writing are experiences–lifelong– in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by them to be brought mind and heart within the presence, the power, of the imagination.”

“I write to be a part of something – a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.”

“We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there’s no other motive except the even baser one of making money….”

“lots of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation.The truth is we all are travellers in the life’s eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothing lasts forever.if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier.”

“I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.”

“I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.”

“Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.”

“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our heats? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so we may feel again their majesty and power?”

“There’s something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting–not least of which the fact the phrase “standard fantasy setting” can be uttered without irony.”

“There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.”

“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”