Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.
John BanvilleStichwörter: writing characters writers-on-writing
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Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.
Lili St. CrowStichwörter: humor wisdom writing humour funny humor-work humorous writers-block writer writers-on-writing writing-philosophy funny-as-hell funny-stuff funny-quotes
I should be writing ...
Mur LaffertyStichwörter: writing-craft writers-on-writing writing-life writer-quotes
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
Kayla Rae WhitakerStichwörter: writing writers-on-writing writing-life
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.
Stephen KingStichwörter: writing writers-on-writing
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
Julia CameronStichwörter: writers-on-writing artists-life
Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: writers-on-writing classic-modern-literature
Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many many many red marks. Fix them. Then put it away for two weeks. Work on something else. Finally, edit one last time. Now you are ready to sub your first work.
Criticism is hard to take at first. Trust me, I've been there. But learn to think of crit marks as a knife. Each one is designed to cut away the bad and leave a scar. Scars prove you've lived, learned and walked away a winner. Any writer who tells you they don't need edits is lying. I don't care if they have 100 books out. Edits make you grow and if you aren't growing as a writer, you are dead.
Stichwörter: advice writers writers-on-writing
I think the reason why I don't read so much, is because as I have observed, whole books all boil down to a drop of essence. You can read a book full of ten thousand words and at the end, sum it up in one sentence; I am more for the one sentence. I am more for the essence. It's like how you need a truckload of roses to extract one drop of rose oil; I don't want to bother with the truckload of roses because I would rather walk away with the drop of rose oil. So in my mind, I have written two hundred books. Why? Because I have with me two hundred vials with one drop of essence in each!
C. JoyBell C.Stichwörter: words reading books writing essence writers-on-writing writing-books gist precious-oil rose-oil
I write to believe in goodness.
Red HaircrowStichwörter: writing writers authors creative-process writers-on-writing
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