Writing Quotes - Page 8

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting...

It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning...

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace
it.