Quotes of: Write Keyword

I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

Anthony Horowitz

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

A. S. Byatt

To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in ...

The Conquest of Happiness

Writing is such an industry now. In many ways, that's a good thing, in that it removes all the muse-like mystique and makes it a plain old job, accessible to everyone. But with industry comes jargon. I was aware that jargon was starting to fill those...

Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale

I feign knowledge of writing: that I know something about it, that I should have learned something after all these years, that I might know something tomorrow. I read too much and write too little, or write too much and live too little. I have no cla...

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the top of your game. You see, something magical happens when you write your book and this is the best place to mention it because a sale happens w...

Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing

I am developing new coping mechanisms for lost words and lost negatives, as here for instance: compensate by describing the episode instead. When something is lost, redirect energy, follow the derivé, the chance and flow of what life tosses us, and ...

Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays

Man knows, and in the course of years he comes to know it increasingly well, feeling it ever more acutely, that memory is weak and fleeting, and if he doesn't write down what he has learned and experienced, that which he carries within him will peris...

Travels with Herodotus

Suicide. It's something I've been thinking about. Not too seriously, but I have been thinking about it.” That's the note. Word for word. And I know it's word for word because I wrote it dozens of times before delivering it. I'd write it, throw it a...

Thirteen Reasons Why

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially allowed to write about “girl stuff” without being penalized for doing so. In part this is the same old shit it’s always been ... I’ve said be...

Scott Lynch

If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not. Y...

Neil Gaiman

J.M. Barrie: [gives him a journal] Here you go. Peter Llewelyn Davies: What's this? J.M. Barrie: All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. Open it. Peter Llewelyn Davies: [reads] "The Boy Castaways: Being a record o...

Finding Neverland

The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have...

Robin Hobb

Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.

Doubt

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Elective Affinities

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

Developing your blog is a balancing act between appeasing current readers and reaching out to new ones.

How to Write a Blog

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

How To Write Science Fiction