Quotes of: Writing Keyword

Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.

Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

Galápagos

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

A Girl of the Limberlost

I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

...but [I] had sworn on the very day of my demobilization never to be under anyone’s orders for the rest of my life. Somehow I must live by writing.

Goodbye to All That

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

The Gone-Away World

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Half Empty

Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.

Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing

Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others.

Amazed: A Girl’s Infinite Pursuit to Grasp the Essence of Humanity in Writing

I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half languages and travel south on a Thursday towards some form of life outside of earth

Amigo Warfare

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Bagombo Snuff Box

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Bag of Bones

Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a poem about it. It was only fair.

Blood Feud

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

The Blue Girl

Writing is my dream. From romance to dragons; fairies to fantasy worlds, this is where I live and play. Thanks be to God!

Be Still My Lover's Heart

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

Born in Ice

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl

Bits of You & Pieces of Me

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry

One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right