writing

"An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional."

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

"In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it."

"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."

"If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea."

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."

"We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it."

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write."

"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."

"She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him."

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."

"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."

"I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite."

"In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book."

"My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's."

"If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write."

"هو لا يفهم أن نفسيتي كإناء من "الكريستال"الرقيق تكفيه نقرة جافة ليتصدع إلى الأبد. لا، هو لا يفهم أن جهود حياته بأكملها لن تعيد الإناء إلى نقاءه الأصلي."