#writing

"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."

"…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew…."

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."

"Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know."

"The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them."

"My bursting heart must find vent at my pen."

"You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one."

"To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday"(without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its"(no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's"(with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill"response in the average stickler."

"Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper."

"As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly."

"My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived."

"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."

"Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."

"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."

"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

"Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I really mean when I say we want to shock society into awareness? Do we mean we want more originality and individuality? Less TV, more reading, writing, actual thinking? Less sheep, more shepherd pie? Yes, yes, and a little more pie, please. Oh, and some more sweet tea, too"

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

"Let All Your Life’s Experiences Lead To More Writing & Encourage More Reading..!"

"You can make anything by writing."

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