writing

"My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college."

"All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line."

"some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout."

"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."

"The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages."

"Iniisip ni Lucas kung gaano kalaki ang kapangyarihan ng isang writer. Sa pamamagitan ng mga salita ay kaya niyang patigilin ang dyip, ilabas ang lihim ng mga pasahero, pabuhusin ang ulan upang linisin ang mga basura sa palibot, ikulong ang mga opisyal na corrupt at tuluyang i-delete sa bansa ang kahirapan."

"Write what you know."

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you."

"In a weak moment, I have written a book."

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

"In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies."

"And ever, as the story drainedThe wells of fancy dry,And faintly strove that weary oneTo put the subject by,"The rest next time--""It is next time!"The Happy voice cry.Thus grew the tale of Wonderland"

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

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"My hands could be considered deadly weapons. You see, I write with both of them."

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."

"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle."

"People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself."