280 Quotes About On-writing

To write a book is to suspend the present and create a new reality.

Some days you have to write..... other days you have to write, write..... and every once in awhile you have to write, write, write.....

Getting an idea is not enough. But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born.

সমস্যা' যত সহজে সেকেলে হয়ে যায় এমন আর কিছুই নয়, শুধু সমসাময়িক সমস্যার উপরে যে রচনায় নির্ভর, তার আশু মৃত্যুদণ্ড লেখক নিজে উচ্চারণ করেছেন।

Writing for a living is my ultimate dream… I’ll never give up on it. For isn't that what life is all about - chasing the dream?

Words writers choose are like a glimmering reflection into our souls.

I don't need to give you a pimple-by-pimple, skirt-by-skirt rundown. We all remember one or more high school losers, after all; if I describe mine, it freezes out yours, and I lose a little bit of the bond of understanding I want to forge between us.

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it’s all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Most of the ideas I’ve gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a bath. A number have occurred to me while I was driving 127. I rarely get ideas when seated in front of my typewriter, which I find ironic because I have always suspected that typing somehow plays a key role in writing.