You say the sentence or you write the sentence again and again until the tuning fork is still.
– Martin Amis
Tag: write
Quotable 493
If you’re a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
– Tim Maleeny
Quotable 475
[Writers block] isn’t a physical thing – it isn’t a gorilla with a croquet mallet who smashes your hand every time you reach for the keyboard. You can get past it. You think past it. You write past it.
– Chuck Wendig
Quotable 474
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 469
One of the first things I tell my classes is, “If you want to write, keep a low overhead.”
– Grace Paley
Quotable 468
I have great fears. I’m terrified of guns. I’m terrified of heights, so I write about bridge-builders and gunfighters.
– Michael Ondaatje
Quotable 461
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor
Quotable 438
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
– Jackie Collins
Quotable 430
To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
– Tracy Kidder
Quotable 423
Something about a situation will bother me, so I will write a piece to find out what it is.
– Joan Didion