#writing

"Being a writer is a good, good thing."

"No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside."

"Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God."Aristotle"

"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."

"We write by the light of every story we have ever read."

"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

"At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty."

"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it"

"Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives"

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

"My advice is to write in the nude. Unless you do your writing in a public restroom, and in that case, I’d recommend wearing flip flops."

"If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing."

"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"

"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both."

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

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

"She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable."

"Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!"