Writing Quotes
When you know what you want to communicate, ask yourself: Who is my audience and what does he know about the subject?
Begin at the beginning as you understood it, proceed through the middle, continue to the end, and then stop, " said Master Li, and he sauntered out to get drunk....
Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!
In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
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There are three difficulties in authorship: – to write anything worth publishing - to find honest men to publish it - and to get sensible men to read it. — Caleb C. Colton [1780-1832]
And now, I have another good reason to speed up my baby narratives to make my author's profile appear more respectable.
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.
Writing is like making love, editing is like giving your great grandfather a sponge bath.
People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you
Writers know all the good reasons for subjecting their work to a sharp trim. Early drafts are notorious for repetition, indirection and overdevelopment of the trivial.
You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.
What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness to proceed stupidly.
I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
On the worst day of writing, the work is instructive. On the best day, the act is transcendent.
Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.
Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.
I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls!
Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of your life.
A writer has no use for the clock. A writer lives in an infinity of days, time without end, ploughed under.
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written
...I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath ...
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...
...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
It is a curiosity of writing about angels that, very often, one turns out to be writing about men.
My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming.
This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.
The reality I submerse myself in when writing, is far greater than the physical reality surrounding me at work!
Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.
My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
