writing

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes."

"A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film."

"The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself)."

"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. Only you didn't tell it like it was, you told it like you thought it should have been."

"I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing."

"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."

"But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]"

"People always ask me if I’m into sports, and I say, “Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating."

"هو لا يفهم أن نفسيتي كإناء من "الكريستال"الرقيق تكفيه نقرة جافة ليتصدع إلى الأبد. لا، هو لا يفهم أن جهود حياته بأكملها لن تعيد الإناء إلى نقاءه الأصلي."

"A letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow."

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

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

"And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is."

"writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all"

"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."

"You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest."