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Writing Quotes (page 217)

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic. Ted Hughes
Alice Walker quote: "I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly..."
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. Alice Walker
Ring Lardner quote: "How can you write if you can't cry?"
How can you write if you can't cry? Ring Lardner
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. Flannery O'Connor
The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight. If you do not do it, the story is a failure. [...] There is no nobler chore in the universe than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal', the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is... Harlan Ellison
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing..."
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me Hunter S. Thompson
Thomas Mann quote: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it..."
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to..."
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. Robert Louis Stevenson
Agatha Christie quote: "First, you have to think and think and think and think; then..."
First, you have to think and think and think and think; then you have to force yourself to write it down. Agatha Christie
His situation, insofar as he was a machine, was complex, tragic, and laughable. But the sacred part of him, his awareness, remained an unwavering band of light. And this book is being written by a meat machine in cooperation with a machine made of metal and plastic. The plastic, incidentally, is a close relative of the gunk in Sugar Creek. And at the core of the writing meat machine is something sacred, which is an unwavering band of light. At the core of each person who reads this book is a... Kurt Vonnegut
In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too. Shirley Jackson
Ken Kesey quote: "Good writing ain't necessarily good reading."
Good writing ain't necessarily good reading. Ken Kesey
I wanta go to Tangiers, I want girls, Iwanta write the biggest book in the world, I want spring to come, I want, I want--Wanting, I get; getting, I lose; losing, Isuffer; suffering, I die--NOT WANTING, I DON'T GETNOT GETTING, I DON'T LOSENOT LOSING, I DON'T SUFFERNOT SUFFERING, I DON'T DIE SUFFERING. Jack Kerouac
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. Jane Smiley
And Castle nodded sagely. 'So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn't agree more.' 'Do you really agree?' I asked. 'A minute ago you said something about Jesus.' 'Who?' said Castle. 'Jesus Christ?' 'Oh,' said Castle. 'Him.' He shrugged. 'People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.' 'I see.' I knew I wasn't going to have an easy time... Kurt Vonnegut

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