Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
Stephen KingTags: on-writing memoir craft instruction-book
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
Lady GagaTags: art music writing creativity craft
Rich will be my life if I
can keep my memories full
and brimming, and record
them on clear-eyed
mornings while I set
joyously to work setting
pen to holy craft.
Tags: life success writing writers work memories craft roman novelist payne novel-writing rooftop-soliloquy succeeding
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties."
(Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)
Tags: writing novels craft victims casualties
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.
[Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957]
Tags: talent advice writing learning-by-doing craft training writing-process craftsmanship creative-writing trial-and-error
Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.
A.S. ByattTags: poetry writing literature self-confidence craft skill conficence
Set up an arbitrary set of rules and then follow them slavishly.
Errol MorrisTags: craft
Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam
Stephanie SkeemTags: goals writing craft working-hard reaching-for-your-dreams
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: writing inspiration craft
Lineation can make your break your poems.
Katerina Stoykova KlemerTags: poetry writing creativity craft
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