Quotes of: Write Keyword

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

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

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

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Write like no one is reading

Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Write like no one is reading

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

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Zen in the Art of Writing

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

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

Dermot Healy

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Ernest Hemingway

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

Erin Morgenstern

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasur...

Felix Mendelssohn