Quotes Tagged "writing"

Writers write while dreamers procastinate.

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. JOEL: I know. CLEMENTINE: What do we do? JOEL: Enjoy it.

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.

It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

Remove the comma, replace the comma, remove the comma, replace the comma...

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.