Quotes on “writing”

If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.