writing

"Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost."

"one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood."

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

"If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you."

"I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him."

"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."

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

"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping."

"Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent."

"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."

"She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart."

"Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write."

"I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love."

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."

"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."

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"I hate writing, I love having written."

"My pen shall heal, not hurt."