Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.
Sarah Rees BrennanTags: on-writing
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel HawthorneTags: reading writing on-writing
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack LondonTags: writing inspiration on-writing
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.
Herman MelvilleTags: on-writing
I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.
Richard BrautiganTags: on-writing
Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.
Stephen KingTags: on-writing
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
Norton JusterTags: on-writing storytelling
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
Craig ClaiborneTags: words writing on-writing
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?
Connie WillisTags: writers inspiration on-writing criticism conceit creative-process critique reviewing reviews
Write what should not be forgotten.
Isabel AllendeTags: writing on-writing writing-advice forgotten
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