...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe.
Andrea A. LunsfordThe Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
Neil CrossTags: writing writers literature literary-fiction booker
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...
Lawrence BlockTags: writing writers short-stories short-story short-fiction
I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.
William GoldingTags: writing writers craftsmanship
I am a writer, I'm supposed to be intense and emotional,
Natasha Duncan-DrakeTags: writing writers humour writer
A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!
Jo LinsdellTags: writers submission guidelines
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wisdom art knowledge writing writers art-criticism insight critics music-criticism music-journalism
Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word.
Darnell Lamont WalkerFor people never say anything the same way twice; no two of them ever say it the same. The greatest imaginative writer that ever brooded in a lavender robe and a mellowed briar in his teeth, couldn't tell you, though e try for a lifetime, how the simplest strap-hanger will ask the conductor to be let off at the next stop. ...
It is all for the taking. All the manuals by frustrated fictioneers on how to write can't give you the first syllable of reality, at any cot, that any common conversation can. All the classics, read and re-read, can't help you catch the ring of truth as does the word heard first-hand.
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You may be a serious writer if ….
10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but not nearly as littered as your head.
9. you keep pen and paper next to your bed. And in the glove compartment. And in your gym bag. Also on the rim of the bathtub.
8. a day without Roget’s Thesaurus is a day without sunshine.
7. your emotional landscape includes creativity, confidence, elation, frustration, and the occasional neurosis.
6. you’ve ever had to clean peanut butter and bread crumbs off your keyboard, because the work was going well, and you didn’t want to stop for lunch.
5. grammar and punctuation turn you on.
4. your interest in a new acquaintance is directly proportionate to his/her potential as a secondary character.
3. you’ve worn the white e, r, s, and t clean off your keyboard.
2. the search history on your web browser would raise red flags with the FBI, CIA, DEA, and mental health professionals everywhere.
1. you have stories to tell, and you just. Keep. Telling. Them.
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