#writing

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

"[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived."

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

"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."

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"He’s an indulgent sort of man……With a quick lip and a fierce tongue, the sort of tongue that draws you in with charm and words of praise, awkward silences and desperate worships."

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

"I wasn't born to cook or clean,but to read and write,if you don't like me the way I am,then go fly a kite."

"Writers write while dreamers procastinate."

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

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

"Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for"

"You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle")"

"The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome"doubt."

"It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written."

"Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I begin a new story. My characters are aspects of my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them."

"She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved."

"Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing."

"I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I wanted to love the world and be the change it so deliciously craved."