Writing
Quotes - History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
“No
tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no
surprise in the reader.”
―
Robert Frost
“You
must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within
You
“The
difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large
matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
―
Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“Don't
tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
―
Anton Chekhov
“Fiction
is the truth inside the lie.”
―
Stephen King
“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 teller but for want of an understanding
ear.”
―
Stephen King
“The
road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
―
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“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
“The
scariest moment is always just before you start.”
―
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Don't
bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own
soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions
mercilessly.”
―
Franz Kafka
“There
is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
―
Frank Herbert
“Start
writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned
on.”
―
Louis L'Amour
“Writing
is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
―
E.L. Doctorow
“How
vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
―
Henry David Thoreau
“After
nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in
the world.”
―
Philip Pullman
“History
will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“If
you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay,
the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a
way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul
grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories.
Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can.
You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
