Roxy Gil > Roxy's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.”
― Jules Renard

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”
― Isaac Asimov

“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.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
― Gene Fowler

“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”
― Don Marquis

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. ”
― James Norman Hall

“The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.”
― Alfred Kazin

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.”
― William Styron

“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. ”
― Samuel Butler

“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule