I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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 it 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.
Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.
The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.
The art of writing is the art of doing what you think you're doing. This is not as simple as it sounds. It implies a very difficult undertaking: the necessity to think. And it implies the requirement to think out three separate, very hard problems: What is it you want to say? How are you going to say it? Have you really said it?
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.
The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
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