writing

"Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point."

"Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got."

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

"Writers are the exorcists of their own demons."

"Then you should say what you mean,"the March Hare went on. "I do,"Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.""Not the same thing a bit!"said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat"is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!"

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

"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."

"Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it."

"You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."

"Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar."

"Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day."

"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

"This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be."

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love."

"End with an image and don't explain."

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

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