“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
―
Douglas Adams,
The Salmon of Doubt
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
―
Maya Angelou
“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
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
―
Maya Angelou
“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
“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
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
―
Stephen King
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
―
Toni Morrison
“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: A Book of Quotations
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
―
Saul Bellow
“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
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
―
Lloyd Alexander
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
―
Anaïs Nin
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