Becoming-a-writer Quote by Henning Mankell

“I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in…

— Piroska Rodriguez

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn’t it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those who overcame…

— M. Kirin

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting with honesty,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.”

— A.E. Poynor

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest