Quotes - Donna (Glendora, MS) Showing 1-30 of 48

#1

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

tags: story, writing

1774 likes

#2

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2806 likes

#3

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing

2708 likes

#4

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4220 likes

#5

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

tags: writing

1970 likes

#6

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5147 likes

#7

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: college, semicolons, writing

3242 likes

#8

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

tags: creativity, invention, quip, wings, writing

4382 likes

#9

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

7214 likes

#10

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5987 likes

#11

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: writing

6447 likes

#12

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

6804 likes

#13

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4561 likes

#14

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

7975 likes

#15

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, qoutes-on-writing, writing

9975 likes

#16

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

6216 likes

#17

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22074 likes

#18

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19425 likes

#19

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

31567 likes

#20

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.”
― James Michener

tags: writing

1340 likes

#21

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing

1891 likes

#22

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

2571 likes

#23

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

2609 likes

#24

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
― Julia Quinn

tags: romance, writing

1148 likes

#25

“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gaga

tags: art, craft, creativity, music, writing

1139 likes

#26

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

804 likes

#27

“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
― Stephen King

tags: life-experience, writing, writing-craft

1728 likes

#28

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”
― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

tags: inspirational, power-of-words, writing

812 likes

#29