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Writing Quotes (page 185)

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort. Joyce Carol Oates
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek. Terry Tempest Williams
Oscar Wilde quote: "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine."
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr Erskine. Oscar Wilde
Roberto Bolano quote: "Reading is more important than writing."
Reading is more important than writing. Roberto Bolano
As for 'too much description,' well, opinions differ. We write the books we want to read. And I want to read books that are richly textured and full of sensory detail, books that make me feel as if I am experiencing a story, not just reading it. Plot is only one aspect of telling a tale, and not the most important one. It is the journey that matters, not how fast you arrrive at the destination. That's my view, anyway. Others writers differ, of course. There are hundreds of books where... George R. R. Martin
For people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation... Nelson Algren
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it . . . Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. Ernest Hemingway
I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time. Sue Monk Kidd
J. D. Salinger quote: "Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart..."
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? J. D. Salinger
Anne Morrow Lindbergh quote: "The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think."
The beach is not a place to work; to read, write or to think. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either..."
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. Christopher Hitchens
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes. Ray Bradbury
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC. Kurt Vonnegut
When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds? like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow. Gustave Flaubert

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