Quotes Tagged "writing"

You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

All stories are love stories.

I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.

A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves, something that withstands the test of time and is passed down for generations.

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.

We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a dancer shaking my ass to boogaloo inside my head, and perhaps reach only readers who like to use books to shake their asses, than to be or write for the man cloistered in a closet somewhere reading Aeschylus while this stupefying world careens crazily past his waxy windows toward its last raving sooty feedback pirouette.

Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.

It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.