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Writing Quotes (page 117)

You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately Henry Miller
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures..."
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading Vladimir Nabokov
Ernest Hemingway quote: "In order to write about life first you must live it."
In order to write about life first you must live it. Ernest Hemingway
And it's what you never will write," said the Controller. "Because, if it were really like Othello nobody could understand it, however new it might be. And if were new, it couldn't possibly be like Othello. Aldous Huxley
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness. Franz Kafka
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I..."
I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. Ursula K. Le Guin
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. P. G. Wodehouse
David McCullough quote: "The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have..."
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write. David McCullough
Vernor Vinge quote: "Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no..."
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. Vernor Vinge
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity. Napoleon Bonaparte
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are images tucked away in books that live more vividly than many men and women. There are phrases from literary works that have a positively human personality. There are passages from my own writing that chill me with fright, so distinctly do I feel them as people, so sharply outlined do they appear against the walls of my room, at night, in shadows….. I've written sentences whose sound, read out loud or silently... Fernando Pessoa
Wide reading is important. You don’t have to like it, but it’s important to grapple with things you don’t understand. I’ve been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don’t want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You’re not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don’t read for an hour a day, I get... Jeanette Winterson
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that? Ray Bradbury
I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that’s the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don’t know what’s going to happen next. Haruki Murakami
One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. Cynthia Ozick

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