#writing

"Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light."

"The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again."

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."

"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."

"Spelling Bees are useless and unnecessary competitions. Before Microsoft Word and Google, Spelling Bees had value, but now they are all superflewus."

"People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."

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

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

"All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world."

"Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read."

"Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment."

"Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well."

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

"Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing."

"Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad"but "good vs. good."

"There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."