Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.
Jean LittleYou cannot write unless you write much.
W. Somerset MaughamMark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.
William Makepeace ThackerayTags: writing writers destiny providence
I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.
William Makepeace ThackerayTags: writing writers destiny providence
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.
J.V. CunninghamWriters are archeologists of themselves.
Vicki GroveGood writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward AlbeeTags: writers on-writing authors
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.
J.K. RowlingTags: inspirational writing writers j-k-rowling writing-inspiration
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson AlgrenTags: judge writers necessity responsibilty
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod SerlingTags: writers frustration actors
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