#writing

"To love is to soar in the wild unexpectedly."

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

"It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand."

"No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough."

"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."

"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."

"You can't edit a blank page"

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

"I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book."

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

"Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."

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

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

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

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

"If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer."

"We no longer know each other. Hell, I barely know myself these days. I brush my teeth and look in the mirror and think, “Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene?"

"A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ..."

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

"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."