Writing Quotes

"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power" "Writing is a struggle against silence." "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it." "This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us" "I like myself better when I'm writing regularly " "It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end." "If a story is in you, it has to come out." "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten either write things worth reading or do things worth writing" "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." "To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme " "God keep me from ever completing anything This whole book is but a draught nay but the draught of a draught " "It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open " "The tongue is mightier than the blade" "I like good strong words that mean something." "One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines." "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby." "It takes a long time to write anything that’s worth reading" "I just know that I feel better when I'm writing music." "I will write for a few more years to see if I can beat this. Literature gives the reader a second chance at life. Life is writing. The most difficult thing for a political leader is getting intelligent people to do stupid things. When you believe in a cause, nothing is impossible." "Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul."