Writing Quotes

"God keep me from ever completing anything This whole book is but a draught nay but the draught of a draught " "It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open " "The tongue is mightier than the blade" "I like good strong words that mean something." "One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines." "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby." "It takes a long time to write anything that’s worth reading" "I just know that I feel better when I'm writing music." "I will write for a few more years to see if I can beat this. Literature gives the reader a second chance at life. Life is writing. The most difficult thing for a political leader is getting intelligent people to do stupid things. When you believe in a cause, nothing is impossible." "Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul." "All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them." "The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification." "You must write every single day of your life."