#writers

"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."

"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."

"The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste."

"No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it"

"Whatever you do, let it be lovely."

"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons."

"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."

"Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza!"

"He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish."

"Writers write while dreamers procastinate."

"Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly."

"The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself)."

"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf."

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

"A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion."

"You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves."

"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy started because of a thumb's up I gave to Douglas Adams on his birthday as I said, "Happy 42."#OutBoastKanye"

"Her words are her wings. She's flying."

"Quiet people have the loudest minds."

"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."