Books are for nothing but to inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
Terry PratchettTags: writing writers science-fiction authors sf mainstream-lit
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon
All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills
P.D. JamesTags: writing authors romance-novels
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
Benny BellamacinaTags: wisdom life poetry poets philosophical authors
If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.
Terena ScottTags: authors advice-to-beginners
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.
Mary GaitskillTags: writing inspiration vision authors readers
Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.
Jennifer SalaizTags: writers authors voices schizophrenics
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
(on Ernest Hemingway
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.
David GerroldTags: writing writers authors writing-life the-martian-child
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