I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly--too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought...
Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart.
Never chase people in your life. No one is worthier than you to be chased.
We see and tell about the myriad truths of how the universe is and might be. That's what we writers DO.
We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity...
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write......writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely...
Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.
All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
It kept coming back to joy-- how could I live a life filled with it? And always, the answer that came back to me was Write.... I am here because of the indigenous people of this country, because of th...
I think you are talented an passionate, Isabella. More than you think and less than you expect. But there are a lot of people with talent and passion, and many of them never get anywhere. This is only...
He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.
The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
Getting started on writing a book isn't as hard as it sounds. You don't need a plan and an outline. In fact, all you need are two things: time and one idea.
Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in addition, he will balk at doing it. He will refuse to do it, even if this brings down dread consequences t...
I began writing late; my first articles and stories were published after I was thirty, and I was motivated by money. Money is not a bad motivation. The need to eat keeps us from laziness, and the fact...
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird.