Quotes Tagged "writing"

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this particular job because it's turned out to be our particular job, and in a weird sort of way I suppose we may be said to like it.

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

Goals are dreams with a deadline.

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.

My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. I do it so much, I never even thought about it as a talent. It's just something I do all the time, like breathing.

تعلمتُ الانتظار ، أوزّع اليوم على مقياس أسبوع لأقلل من وطأة البطء

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.

I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they’ve taken the story. It’s as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me. . . .

If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

First and foremost, I am me. I'm real. I don't write to impress. I write to express.

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.