writing

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."

"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"

"I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves."

"I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul"

"I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled."

"and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it"

"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."

"Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written."

"Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!"

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."

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

"Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore."

"What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us."

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."

"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."

"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

"How to Write a PoemCatch the airaround the butterfly."

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."