Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking, "I can do better that this. Hell, I am doing better than this!" What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer than to realize that his/her work is unquestionably better than that of someone who actually got paid for his/her stuff? Good writing on the other hand, teaches the learning writer about style, graceful narration, plot development, the creation of believable characters, and truth-telling. A novel like The Grapes of Wrath may fill a new writer with feelings of despair and good old-fashioned jealousy--"I'll never be able to write anything that good, not if I live to be a thousand"--but such feelings can also serve as a spur, goading the writer to work harder and aim higher. Being swept away by a combination of great story and great writing--of being flattened, in fact--is part of every writer's necessary formation. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. So we read to experience the mediocre and the outright rotten; such experience helps us to recognize those things when they begin to creep into our own work, and to steer clear of them. We also read in order to measure ourselves against the good and the great, to get a sense of all that can be done. And we read in order to experience different styles.
Stephen KingStichwörter: on-writing
The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.
R.M. EngelhardtStichwörter: poetry on-writing literature critics reading-readers-writers r-m-engelhardt
I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
H Raven RoseStichwörter: on-writing writer on-being-a-writer
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.
Thomas MooreStichwörter: on-writing criticism writer thomas-moore
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.
H Raven RoseStichwörter: on-writing writer writers-on-writing writer-quote
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those inner parts of yourself, without damaging the psyche, that determines whether the beauty is experienced and expressed and shared with others or, in fact, becomes the death of the self and Soul and psyche. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.
H Raven RoseStichwörter: on-writing soul self powerful writers-on-writing writer-quotes magical-psyche transformative
I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.
H Raven RoseStichwörter: on-writing creativity writer-quote on-the-elusive-in-writing
To Grandma,
for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.
Stichwörter: on-writing aspirations dedications
It’s a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.
Gary ReillyStichwörter: on-writing
Most of the ideas I’ve gotten for novels or screenplays have occurred to me while I was either shaving or taking a bath. A number have occurred to me while I was driving 127. I rarely get ideas when seated in front of my typewriter, which I find ironic because I have always suspected that typing somehow plays a key role in writing.
Gary ReillyStichwörter: on-writing
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