Books Quote by Kenneth Patchen

“I write my literature as I write my ledger entries-carefully and indifferently. Next to the vast starry sky and the enigma of so many…

— Fernando Pessoa

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In general, [. . .] novel-theorists have nothing very urgent or interesting to say about literature. Why then do they write when they have…

— Gore Vidal

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

— A. S. Byatt

“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or any character)…

— Arti Honrao

Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a…

— Geoff Nicholson

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a…

— Travis Beacham

“Instead of saying, ‘The writing in this scene isn’t good enough,’ you say, ‘Don’t you want people to walk out of the theater and…

— Ed Catmull

“I’m not saying you can’t do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn’t going to get…

— Francesca Zappia

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the…

— Paul Auster