writing

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."

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

"The true poem rests between the words."

"Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore."

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

"فكم من الأشياء قد تحدث لنا بسبب ما نقرأ.ذلك أن ثمة قراءات تفعل بنا فعل الكتابة، وتوصلنا إلى حيث لا نتوقع !"

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."

"...(W)here there's drama, there's crap."

"I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones."

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."

"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it."

"I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky."

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

"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action."

"It has often been saidthere’s so much to be read,you never can cramall those words in your head.So the writer who breedsmore words than he needsis making a chorefor the reader who reads.That's why my belief isthe briefer the brief is,the greater the sighof the reader's relief is.And that's why your bookshave such power and strength.You publish with shorth!(Shorth is better than length.)"

"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams."

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

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

"you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will."