writing

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

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."

"Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."

"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

"But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what?"

"The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be."

"The Sacred and The Scared. Which of these two categories does your love fall under? I should write a love poem on a rolled-up scroll so you’d know which one categorizes mine."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."

"In Hollywood, no one knows anything."

"Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism."

"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"

"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."

"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity."