Quotes on “writing”

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

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.

If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

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

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.