Writing

"All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

"No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons."

"In writing, you must kill all your darlings."

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]"

"The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."

"Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?"

"Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]"

"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay."

"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

"great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it."

"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."

"You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road."

"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with 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."

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"Easy reading is damn hard writing."