132 Quotes About Writers-and-writing

What good is a writer if he can’t destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don’t help as much as we can in that destruction?

It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

Y escribir cada día,ganar la loteríade al menos una fraseque nadie ha dicho nunca,tener un pensamientoque todos han tenido,pero decirlo biencon todas las vocales,con todos los sonidos,con todos los sentidos.Lograr que la aventura de tu vidaesté en las páginas que escribes,en los ojos que ahorapulen un heptasílabo,quitan o ponen una coma, una tilde, un acento,en los ojos que ahora se detienencomplacidos tal vezo entretenidosen un punto, este punto: .

The word is a violent pleasure.

Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared. Now it's time to be living. I don't want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

Vengeance is ours saith the Lord and the writers.

All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy.