I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
– James A. Michener
Tag: words
Quotable 456
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
– Chuck Wendig
Quotable 435
Remind yourself, every day, that you’re doing this to try to find something out about yourself, about the world, about words and how they fit together. Writing is investigation. Just keep seeking.
– Naomi Alderman
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
Quotable 419
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it’s words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
– Geraldine Brooks
Quotable 417
Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi
Quotable 324
Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.
– Norman Cousins
Quotable 322
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
– Tom Stoppard
Quotable 293
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 272
Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.
– Jonathan Price