#write

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

"Writers write while dreamers procastinate."

"I know the X’s and O’s of football. I just don’t know the other 24 letters. And as a writer, this bothers me."

"When you write from the heart, it is always beautiful."

"People always ask me if I’m into sports, and I say, “Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating."

"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’ll write the first sentence in English and the second sentence will be nonsense translated to Russian, to make the ultimate non sequitur."

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one."

"You gotta run more than your mouth to escape the treadmill of mediocrity. A true hustler jogs during the day, and sleepwalks at night."

"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."

"The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink."

"The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration."

"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."

"Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence."

"You’ll drown in my love story, if I ever write it using a fountain pen."

"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."

"I want to write a book about shoes that’s full of footnotes."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."