“Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.”— Kit Reed Related Quotes “You have to stop and freeze the moment,” he told me I had told her. “You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.”— Jenny Hubbard “To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.”— George Orwell “I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.”— Violette Leduc