writing

"Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost."

"A follow-up letter is best when not written on the back of a suicide note. Remember this next time you’re at a networking event, unless your new connection is a mortician."

"My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

"A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!"

"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

"Writing is prayer."

"Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing."

"I want to write a poem about "Truth,""Honor,""Dignity,"and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you pull on it."

"Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain."

"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."

"The joy of writing.The power of preserving.Revenge of a mortal hand."

"Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up."

"I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity."

"Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write."

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

"The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing."

"I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me."

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."