Writing Quotes - Page 10

Words have weight.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

You should edit before and after editing.

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential; productivity becomes obsolete.