Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

385 Quotes

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Ishmael Reed

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Italo Calvino

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

Italo Calvino

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

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

Jackie Collins

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Jacques Derrida

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Jacques Derrida

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

Jean M. Auel

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jessica Mitford

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.

Joan Didion

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