writing

"If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!"

"Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken."

"At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write."

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."

"Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story."

"The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."

"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."

"Books are for nothing but to inspire"

"White letters plus white paper equals invisibility. Just because you can’t see my love for you, doesn’t mean I didn’t write about it."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’."

"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

"He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written."

"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."

"To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday"(without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its"(no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's"(with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill"response in the average stickler."

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."

"not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."

"Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar."

"She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity."

"But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?"