#writ

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#actual experience #already #any #bad #based

I'm a writer, not a genre. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#i #writer

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#human #i #learned #much #writer

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.' ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#felt #i #i always #inside #little

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#am #back #come #day #go

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#book #down #head #i #must

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#biography #death #like #off #own

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#demands #done #else #except #nothing

Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, romance, fear, death, life, pain, & yes even happiness. writing is of a specific purpose & states a meaning within what is written. ↗

— Michael Stuckey

#poetry #recipes #writer #writing #death

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying