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Writing Quotes (page 150)

Now, paper and pencils," said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands. Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one the Vicar gave me. In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman. Dodie Smith
The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction. Paul Theroux
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it. Saul Bellow
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he..."
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book? and that he did not learn it better. Friedrich Nietzsche
I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making. Christopher Hitchens
Derrick Jensen quote: "The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher,..."
The only real job of a teacher, especially a writing teacher, is to help students find themselves. Derrick Jensen
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd..."
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Eudora Welty
This, above all, ask yourself in the stillest hour of the night: must I write? Delve deep into yourself. And if this should be affirmative, if you may meet this question witha strong and simple 'I must' then build your lfie according to this necessity; your life even into its most indifferent and slightest hour must be a sign of this urge and a testimony to it. Rainer Maria Rilke
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot. Ray Bradbury
...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation. P. G. Wodehouse
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. Julio Cortazar
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. Mignon McLaughlin
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
To write simply is as difficult as to be good. W. Somerset Maugham
Jonathan Franzen quote: "It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his..."
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction. Jonathan Franzen

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