writing
“All that I have written seems like straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.”
“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“Every now and then it's nice to stop and just look over what you've been writing and the way you've been writing it.”
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
“What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize that I have spent whole days before this inkstone.”
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice.”
“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others.”
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
“Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.”
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
“No one can help you write the way you write.”
“Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.”
“The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you... "Tell me more. Tell me all you can."”
“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten — happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
“Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you.”
“...writing is not a performance but a generosity.”
“Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create."”
“No writing is a waste of time — no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.”
“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself.”