The Reason I Write
The reason I write
is to make something
as beautiful as you are
When I’m with you
I want to be the kind of hero
I wanted to be
when I was seven years old
a perfect man
who kills.
Leonard Cohen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen
People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
Haruki Murakami
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
First, a mistress that you dally and play with, then she becomes your master and finally your tyrant.
Winston Churchill (on writing a book).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenleaf_Whittier
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have the talent for luck.
Hector Berlioz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Berlioz
A long time ago when I was writing for the pulps, I put into a story a line like “he got out of the car and walked across the sun drenched sidewalk until the shadow of the awning over the entrance fell across his face like the touch of cold water.” They took it out when they published the story. Their readers didn’t appreciate this sort of thing: it just held up the action. And I set out to prove them wrong. My theory was that they just thought they cared nothing about anything but the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of his death he was trying to pick a paper clip up from the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain on his face and his mouth was half open in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even hear death knock on the door. That damn little paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just couldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell.
Raymond Chandler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler
The only things worth writing about are love and murder.
Aksel Sandemose
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Sandemose
Rejection is the sand in the oyster, the irritant that ultimately produces the pearl.
J. Burke Wilkinson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19517.Burke_Wilkinson
I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can’t do it, I’m trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add that chip on my shoulder.
Erin Andrews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Andrews
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Richard Brautigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan
