Writing Quotes
"It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity"
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live"
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink"
"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."
"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first "
"You fail only if you stop writing."
"Novels are a marathon, while screenplays are a sprint"
"What I enjoy most are the challenges that the writing process presents"
"A movie script is a barebones thing, and publishing a novel is like opening yourself up for criticism and analysis"
"Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same way, in a different tree."
"A writer often needs he has been untrue to himself in the process of writing."
"Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence"
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
"I want to write I want to write the songs of my people"
"I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be"
"Men speak of mirth and write of sorrow"
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest."
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream"