writing Quotes

“Only assholes talk about writing…”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:writing talking

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

topic:writing

“Paper has more patience than people.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

topic:writing humanity patience

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:writing books

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

topic:truth writing hurting

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing reading

“I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:writing action

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:heart reason writing

“the writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:writing imagination

“The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:understanding writing

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