Write Quotes
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.
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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
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Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: “Let’s not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . .” His face was impassive. “I never write,” he said.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
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Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
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It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
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I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She had to write, it was the only thing that was completely hers, that she could look forward to at the end of her long day.
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I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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It's my experience that people write better when they feel at ease and free to experiment, rather than being in a competitive, hypercritical atmosphere. There are always a few students who want me to be tough or harsh, but it's really not my style.
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I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
