Quotes Tagged "writing"

Cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Loren Hale is an alcoholic beverage and he doesn't even know it.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

You become [a] writer by writing. It is a yoga.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

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.

A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the author must uncover so carefully to show its beauty.

DWIGHT: Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living.

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.