Writing - Epic Quotes

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.

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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.

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Reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

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I can’t change the past, and I don’t think I would. I don’t expect to be understood. I like what I’ve written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I’ve written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn’t do it.

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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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I regret all of my books.

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That’s one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

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