writing

"She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be."

"The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering."

"The story is always better than your ability to write it."

"Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds."

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules."

"Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever."

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."

"Writing comes more easily if you have something to say."

"My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal."

"No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside."

"I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

"Buku yang kau tulis adalah semacam jejak yang terus menyala di dunia, dan bisa menjadi cahaya akhiratmu."

"You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it."

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"

"… and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you."

"DWIGHT:Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people."