I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.

Louisa May Alcott

Tags: writing-books



Show the quote in German

Show the quote in French

Show the quote in Italian

Go to quote


I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.

C. JoyBell C.

Tags: life inspirational books writing writers inspirational-quotes living ideals life-and-living wine expectations inspirational-life writers-on-writing inspiring writing-life living-life writing-process writing-books inspirational-living



Go to quote


MFA in a Box is designed to help you to find the courage to put truth into words and to understand that writing is a life-and-death endeavor — but that nothing about a life-and-death endeavor keeps it from being laugh-out-loud funny.

John Rember

Tags: writing creative-process writing-life writing-books creative-writing



Go to quote


I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am more for the essence. It's like how you need a truckload of roses to extract one drop of rose oil; I don't want to bother with the truckload of roses because I would rather walk away with the drop of rose oil. So in my mind, I have written two hundred books. Why? Because I have with me two hundred vials with one drop of essence in each!

C. JoyBell C.

Tags: words reading books writing essence writers-on-writing writing-books gist precious-oil rose-oil



Go to quote


Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such thing as vampires. They're made-up. We writers made them up. I'm sorry we did such a good job that we made the whole world paranoid, but it's true. They're fictional. Blame Bram Stoker. He started it.

Meg Cabot

Tags: writing-books



Go to quote


The Calling means so much to me. It's this idea of perception and how the mythology of the universe and Earth have played out and how I get to re-write that based on my imagination and some of my true feelings. It's about being a man pushing 35 and not having a sense of direction. It's about finding love and being totally unwilling to let it go. - About Qualia

Stephan Lawrence Theodore Clifford

Tags: writing-books



Go to quote


À quoi bon écrire ? tout s'imprime en moi et c'est peut-être la pure poésie que de se laisser imprégner et de déchiffrer en soi-même la signature des choses.

Blaise Cendrars

Tags: writing-books



Go to quote


I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book.

Haruki Murakami

Tags: memory writing-books



Go to quote


I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.

Rachel Hawkins

Tags: humor romance writing-books



Go to quote


Write It, Work It, Publish

Cherry-Ann Carew

Tags: books writing-books cherry-ann-carew



Go to quote



Page 1 of 3.
next last »

©gutesprueche.com

Data privacy

Imprint
Contact
Wir benutzen Cookies

Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.

OK Ich lehne Cookies ab