Quotes of: I-write Keyword

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

What you need to remember is that there’s a difference between lecturing about what you know and using it to enrich the story. The latter is good. The former is not.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

A Wild Sheep Chase

Membacalah empat jam sehari dan menulislah empat jam sehari. Kalau kau tidak bisa meluangkan waktu untuk itu, jangan harap kau bisa menjadi penulis yang baik.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

You won't understand this now, Saira. Later, perhaps. When you are older. When you learn that life is not only about the choices make. That some of them will be made for you.

The Writing on My Forehead

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

The Writing Life

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

The Writing Life

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

The Writing Life

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

The Writings of a Savage

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

The Writings of a Savage

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

La mayoría de las supuestas organizaciones Sufis, ejercicios y “órdenes” sólo son de interés arqueológico.

The World of the Sufi: An Anthology of Writings about Sufis and Their Work

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery.

Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Zen in the Art of Writing

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

Alex Kapranos

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

House of Leaves