But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else.
Wash the car, maybe.
Tags: on-writing stephen-king
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.
Stephen KingTags: on-writing stephen-king
The main thing is to WRITE. Some days it might be 2000 words. Some days you might tinker with two sentences until you get them just right. Both days belong in the writing life. Some days you may watch a ‘Doctor Who’ marathon or become immersed in a book that is so good you can’t stop reading. Some days you may be in love or in mourning. Those days belong in the writing life, too. Live them without guilt.
L.K. MadiganTags: on-writing
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it.
+ Then you shouldn't be a writer.
Tags: on-writing self-reminder
We need good titles.
Henry MillerTags: on-writing
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)
Tags: honesty writing integrity on-writing creative-process self-expression expectations selling-out pandering
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit."
Stephen King, On Writing
Tags: on-writing brevity quotes-for-writers
If I don't write it, they can't buy it.
Connie CoxTags: on-writing writerly-inspiration
I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.
Stephen KingTags: on-writing stories storytelling character-driven
It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is possible to write a line of seemingly innocuous dialogue and have it send a chill along the reader's spine-- the source of artistic delight, as Nabokov would have it. That's the kind of writing that most interests me.
Raymond CarverTags: writing on-writing commonplace 1983
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