Writings Quotes (page 123)

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• writing
• moments
• starts

There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. Samuel Beckett

• end
• hand
• one day

There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism. Umberto Eco

• help
• water
• writing

I did get a colonic, but I've decided not write about it at length. I didn't find it helpful or enlightening. I can tell you want it felt like, though: It felt like someone shooting water up your butt. A. J. Jacobs

• play
• faith
• song

The interstate seems to stretch for miles in a straight line as the fields and farms give way to a more barren landscape. "Loneliness has been good to me' is playing on my personal radio where I hear songs before I write them, and I wonder if this is just another mirage I will forget or if this will become a real song. It has been a long time since I've written a song, and the visits from the muse seem to be lessened by something. I still keep my faith that the muse knows best and whn I am... Neil Young

• love
• soul
• lies

Language has not the power tospeak what love indites: The soul lies buriedin the ink that writes. John Clare

• good
• writing
• nonsense

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense Mark Twain

• english
• writing
• world

There have been daring people in the world who claimed that Fenimore Cooper could write English, but they are all dead now. Mark Twain

• single
• writing
• words

If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be "To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation. Vladimir Nabokov

• writing
• play
• tired

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said. Fernando Pessoa

• good
• writing
• nerd

Nerds get what they want when they want it, and they go psycho if it's not immediately available. Nerds overfocus. I guess that's the problem. But it's precisely this ability to narrow-focus that makes them so good at code writing... Doug Coupland

• style
• writing
• styles

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. Haruki Murakami

• heart
• writing
• hair

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. Arundhati Roy

• music
• writing
• blue

As far as we were concerned, we were just a blues band that had decided to write some scary music. Ozzy Osbourne

• writing
• inventing
• write

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories. Roald Dahl

• world
• writing
• cartoon

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. Neil Gaiman