WRITING

Some quotes about writing

'To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.'

Allen Ginsberg

'Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works,'

Virginia Woolf

'The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.'

Andre Gide

'I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.'

Andre Dubus III

'It aint whatcha write, it's the way atcha you write it.'

Jack Kerouac

'To defend what you've writeen is a sign that you are alive.'

William Zinsser

'We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.'

Ernest Hemingway

'Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.'

Larry L. King

'Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. '

Franz Kafka

'Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?'

Kurt Vonnegut

'Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. '

F. Scott Fitzgerald

''When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.'

George Orwell

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."

Kingsley Amis

Some quotes about writing

'To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.'

'Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works,'

Virginia Woolf

'The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.'

Andre Gide

'I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.'

Andre Dubus III

'It aint whatcha write, it's the way atcha you write it.'

Jack Kerouac

'To defend what you've writeen is a sign that you are alive.'

William Zinsser

'We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.'

Ernest Hemingway

'Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.'

Larry L. King

'Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. '

Franz Kafka

'Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?'

Kurt Vonnegut

'Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. '

F. Scott Fitzgerald

''When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.'

"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."

Kingsley Amis

Picture taken by Hilary Alexander

October 2013