"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Writing, Forget, Pen, Struggle, Words

31

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."

Exlpore more Writing quotes

"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Writing, Immortality, Truth, Future, Power

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Writing, Word, Power, Expression

"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

Writing, Secrets, Observation, Insight

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Writing, Eating, Opinion, Trouble, Worth

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Writing, Read

"As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Writing, Dialogue, Clarity, Story

"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing?' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Creativity, Story, Research, Imagination

"One idea to a sentence is still the best advice that anyone has ever given on writing."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Writing, Clarity, Focus, Advice

"It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Writing, Passion, Creativity, Joy

"But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?"

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom, Life

Explore more quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

Reading

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

Nation

"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

Beginning

"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."

Identity

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

Literature

"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

Mind

31