#writing

"I felt like poisoning a monk."

"Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds."

"Membaca dan menulis membuatmu menjadi."

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

"Writers will happen in the best of families."

"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."

"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."

"The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?"

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

"Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be."

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."

"I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed."

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

"Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to."

"You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world."

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

"I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name."

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

"Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol."