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“على الكتاب أن يكتبوا واقفين، فإنهم حينها سيتقنون كتابة الجمل القصيرة.”
― إرنست همنجواي

“أن تكتب يعني أن تبتكر صوتًا،أو أسلوبًا يعطي للعالم شكلاً أسلوبًا لايجب أن يكون أنيقًا أو مثقفًا بل يجب أن يكون خاصًا بك”
― كارلوس ليسكانو

“فمحاولة الكتابة تشبة الى حد كبير محاولة تركيب أجزاء الصورة المكونة للغز”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“اكتب عن كل الإشياء التى تراها عيناك
اما التى لاتراها فأكتب عما تحسه نحوها
ولكى تكتب يا فلفل يجب ان ترى بعمق
وتسمع برهافه وتحس بصدق”
― محمد المنسي قنديل, ثلاث حكايات عن الغضب

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
― Anais Nin

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim