280 Quotes About On-writing

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

Writing is like having sex. When you start, you stop thinking, and just go with the flow.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.