To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert FrostTags: poetry on-writing afflictions
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: writing on-writing
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: on-writing
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
David SedarisTags: on-writing
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Michael CrichtonTags: books on-writing rewritten written
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise PascalTags: poetry opening-lines on-writing despair creative-process life-and-death
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
Leo TolstoyTags: on-writing storytelling
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin.
-- Mr. Magorium
Tags: on-writing
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.
Chris BatyTags: writing simile on-writing rough-drafts
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond ChandlerTags: writing on-writing revision
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