1,068 Quotes About Writers-on-writing

I plant words in my garden.

To paraphrase Ezra Pound, don't imagine that the art of prose is any simpler than the art of music; spend as much time developing your craft as a pianist spends practicing scales. 'Let the neophyte know assonance and alliteration, rhyme immediate and delayed, simple and polyphonic, as a musician would expect to know harmony and counterpoint, Pound argued in his 1913 essay, 'A Few Don'ts.

The possibilities of life are indeed novel, and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it.

I may have been born in another place, but I feel I am from Nepal. The Magic of Nepal has to be felt.

My pen keeps on penning words on these blank sheets of paper. Then words dance and create their own magic...

Er zijn twee soorten schrijvers. De eerste soort wil zich, zichzelf, rechtvaardigen als mens. De tweede soort wil zich rechtvaardigen als schrijver.

A writer is chosen by the universe to be the architect of the next generation.

Writing had become a constant partner. She had become my muse. The moments of my madness made me crave her. She was the reason that I never felt alone. She never let me feel lonely. She enticed me in my days. She allured me in my nights. She bewitched me in myriad unknown ways!

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