writing

"Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff."

"Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing--would you?''Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write--I can't help it at times--I've just got to."

"Cynics are simply thwarted romantics."

"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

"A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes."

"I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words."

"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent."

"I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."

"White letters plus white paper equals invisibility. Just because you can’t see my love for you, doesn’t mean I didn’t write about it."

"I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell."

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

"I go on writing so that I will always have something to read."

"Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]"

"Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie eine Geschichte anfängt. Auch nicht darauf, wie sie aufhört. Sondern auf das, was dazwischen passiert."

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time."

"Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."