Quotes and sayings about tag  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

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

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• Life

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 desire to write grows with writing.

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• Writing

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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

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• Humor

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

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

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• Love

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

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• Writing

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.

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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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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• Life

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

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• Truth