#writing

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

"The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing."

"But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]"

"The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text."

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."

"We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own."

"Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding."

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

"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you."

"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."

"Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy."

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

"The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated."

"When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly."

"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river."

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

"If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!"

"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."