A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas MannStichwörter: writing writers struggle authors creative-process
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Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
(Casual Chance, 1964)
Stichwörter: writing creative-process editing self-criticism
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?
Connie WillisStichwörter: writers inspiration on-writing criticism conceit creative-process critique reviewing reviews
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Stichwörter: art writing creative-process arts-and-humanities
I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.
Jim HensonStichwörter: inspiration creative-process
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
John SteinbeckStichwörter: motivational persistence writing creative-process failure
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
Agatha ChristieStichwörter: writing creative-process commitment professionalism
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: reality writing creative-process novels escape
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
Elmore LeonardStichwörter: writing creative-process focus
I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel DuchampStichwörter: art creativity creative-process
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