Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

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• Truth

How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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• Writing

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

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• Writing

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

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• Writing

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

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• Writing

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.

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• Writing

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.

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• Writing

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

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• Writing

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

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• Romance

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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• Inspirational

The desire to write grows with writing.

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• Writing

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

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• Writing

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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• Writing

Remember to get the weather in your damn book--weather is very important.

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• Writing

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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• Writing

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

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• Writing

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

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• Truth

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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• Writing

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

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• Writing

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

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• Writing

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

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• Writing

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

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• Writing

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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• Writing

The first draft of anything is shit.

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• Writing

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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• Writing

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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• Writing

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

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• Inspirational

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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• Writing

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

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• Writing

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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• Humor