Bomb-magazine-interview Quote by Nam Le

“I realize that all I can place in the imperfect vessel of writing are imperfect memories and imperfect thoughts.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old material you…

— Jarod Kintz

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

— Philip Roth

“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the…

— Madelaine Standing

“I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

“writing is perilous, as you can’t always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”

— Jojo Moyes

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence…

— Ernest Hemingway