Writing Quotes - We write to taste life twice
“I
love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
―
Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“There
is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
―
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“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
“If
there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you
must write it.”
―
Toni Morrison
“There
is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“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.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle
“If
you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write.
Simple as that.”
―
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
“We
write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
―
Anais Nin
“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
“One
day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
―
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
“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
“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
“Fantasy
is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
―
Lloyd Alexander
“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
“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
“You
never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
―
Saul Bellow
