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  • Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 19, 2013
  • The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

    Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books
  • I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

    Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
  • Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

    Writing   Next   Evening  
  • Here’s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used to believe was useless — that is the best brain for creative writing. Words come pouring out easily while my head still feels as if it is full of ground fog, wrapped in flannel and gauze, and surrounded by a hive of humming, velvety sleep bees.

  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013
  • The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.

    Pain   Writing   Creating  
  • Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

    Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.
  • It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

    "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.
  • I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

    Ernest Hemingway, James A. Michener (1986). “The dangerous summer”, Scribner Book Company
  • Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

    Life   Beauty   Beautiful  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.
  • Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  • The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

    1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.
  • A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

    Funny   Writing   Sarcasm  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.
  • Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  • The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  • It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

  • Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  • Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

    William Penn (1792). “Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life”, p.130
  • A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

    "Essays of Three Decades". Book by Thomas Mann, 1942.
  • Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

    God   Writing   Stupidity  
  • You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.

    Martha Grimes (2004). “Foul Matter”, p.51, Penguin
  • In good writing, words become one with things.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1992). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.376, University of Missouri Press
  • Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

    Struggle   Book   Writing  
    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

    Writing   Drunk   Drug  
  • He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

  • For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to music; I'm intending it to not be recited. I'm a singer-songwriter, and I'm a poet, and there really isn't a contradiction, at least for me.

    Song   Writing   Singers  
    "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
  • As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) ch. 11
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