#writing

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."

"Write to your fear."

"Seperti apakah Anda? Menurut saya, paling tidak Anda adalah apa yang Anda tulis."

"A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter."

"Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken."

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

"The main thing is to writefor the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lustthat imagines its haven like your hands at nightdreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.Take off from here."

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it."

"Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's."

"I wrote you a love letter. I used invisible ink to show I was being transparent with my feelings. And also to hide my feelings."

"If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you."

"A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world."

"Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."-Anne Shirley"

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write."

"Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up."

"I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip."

"Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever."

"In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling."

"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."