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."

"If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer."

"I write to understand as much as to be understood."

"Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you."

"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."

"With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact."

"Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would."

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

"If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you."

"Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It’s not just a question of how-to, you see; it’s also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing."

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

"She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved."

"If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway."

"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."

"Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

"(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."

"You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."

"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

"At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath of your touch stained my desire. Yea, it was one of those nights where I needed you the most."

"It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it."