Writing

"It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem."

"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy."

"Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder."

"When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly."

"Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does."

"Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak?"

"Don't write to sell, write to tell."

"İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli."

"The statement ‘There is nothing more American than an Indian’ happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss."

"A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them."

"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought."

"Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever."

"Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing."

"A writer always writes."

"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."

"The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?"

"it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."

"All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea."

"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."

"Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all."