writing
“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.”
“Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything.”
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence.”
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness.”
“Work. Finish. Publish.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”
“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible.”
“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
“The desire to write grows with writing.”
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”