The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.
William FaulknerStichwörter: writing writers inspiration on-writing fiction creativity
Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?
Anita ShreveStichwörter: on-writing
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.
Rachel GibsonStichwörter: on-writing
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.
Mario Vargas LlosaStichwörter: on-writing writer-quotes
Writers were blessed stenographers taking divine dictation.
Stephen KingStichwörter: on-writing
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious."
[Ten rules for writing fiction, The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, and AL Kennedy)]
Stichwörter: on-writing
Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
Philip PullmanStichwörter: paraphrased on-writing
If you've got a message, send a telegram.
Samuel GoldwynStichwörter: humor on-writing
I write because I love how I feel to have written.
Carol Lynch WilliamsStichwörter: on-writing
Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they an best say what they are meant to say. If the words are heavy with the writer's own unbridled emotions, or if they are imprecise and inaccurate for some other reason -- if the worlds are in any way blurred -- the reader's eyes will slide right over them and nothing will be achieved. Henry James called this sort of hapless writing 'weak specification'.
Raymond CarverStichwörter: words advice writing on-writing language 90
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