Writings Quotes (page 229)

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• good
• writing
• good writing

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop. L. M. Montgomery

• single
• writing
• quality

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. Haruki Murakami

• time
• old
• writing

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. Charles Bukowski

• running
• writing
• people

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. Paul Fussell

• true
• believe
• evening

There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which is consciously inserted. Partly because it won't reflect the storyteller's true beliefs, it will only reflect what he BELIEVES he believes, or what he thinks he should believe or what he's been persuaded of. But when you write without deliberately expressing moral teachings, the morals that show up are the ones you actually live by. The beliefs... Orson Scott Card

• writing
• value
• writes

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. Marvin Harris

• writing
• she
• prayer

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. Marsha Norman

• book
• fall
• writing

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. Virginia Woolf

• love
• writing
• blindly

A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out Michael Ondaatje

• reading
• creativity
• writing

Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and, by reading it, completes it. Margaret Mahy

• writing
• truthfulness
• thing

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. John Steinbeck

• life
• writing
• college life

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. Dodie Smith

• magic
• best
• brave

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. Stephen King

• little
• love
• god

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Teresa

• evening
• personal
• god

Even for those thousands of young people who don’t get something out there [in a university writing program], the process is still a noble one — the process of trying to say something, of working through craft issues and the worldview issues and the ego issues — all of this is character-building, and, God forbid, everything we do should have concrete career results. I’ve seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person George Saunders