#writing

"great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it."

"When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse."

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."

"I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name."

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."

"I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too."

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

"Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt."

"Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder."

"I write out of revenge."

"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."

"Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian."

"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."

"I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go."

"When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day."

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."