writing

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."

"All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you."

"Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version."

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

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

"A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love."

"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."

"...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."

"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."

"Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say."

"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

"Every day I type out my dream scribbles from the night before, looking for treasure buried deep in my subconscious."

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

"فكم من الأشياء قد تحدث لنا بسبب ما نقرأ.ذلك أن ثمة قراءات تفعل بنا فعل الكتابة، وتوصلنا إلى حيث لا نتوقع !"

"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

"I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name."

"Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be."

"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."