Quotes on “writing”

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.

let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

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

My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.