Quotes and sayings about tag  writing

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.

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• Humor

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

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.

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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

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

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• Writing

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

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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

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

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• Writing

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

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• Writing

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

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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

If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

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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

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

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• Writing