Time Quote by Rabih Alameddine

“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.”

— Elmore Leonard

“When I was young, I told a lot of lies; so I grew up and wrote all of them all down.”

— Jason W. Blair

“...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.”

— Zadie Smith

“Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd...”

— Robert Burns

“How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”

— Brian Friel

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

— Haruki Murakami

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I write will…

— Fernando Pessoa

“It’s quite certain there are places to which the whole past is as though attached, on which are traced in secret letters for people…

— Vladimir Odoevsky

“The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I openly talk about my past because we should embrace our mistakes and our dark times, because without them we’d never have the lessons…

— Kathryn Perez