“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway
― Ernest Hemingway
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison
― Toni Morrison
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King
― Stephen King
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow
― Saul Bellow
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander
― Lloyd Alexander
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost
― Robert Frost
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King
― Stephen King
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow
― E.L. Doctorow
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons
― Stephen King, Different Seasons
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
― Philip Pullman
“We live and breathe words. …. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt–I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted–and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov
― Anton Chekhov
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston Churchill
― Winston Churchill
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L’Amour
― Louis L’Amour
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank
― Anne Frank
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