writing

"Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light."

"Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"When asked, "How do you write?"I invariably answer, "One word at a time,"and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope."

"Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear."

"When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall."

"He asked, "What makes a man a writer?""Well,"I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."

"Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm."

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

"I write because I cannot NOT write."

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

"The pen is mightier than the sword!"

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

"There are two typos of people in this world: those who can edit, and those who can't."

"I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head."

"Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus."

"Write what should not be forgotten."

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."