We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: books writing writers write work book magic gift
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.
James A. MichenerTags: writing writers difference write work selfish self goal book writer print
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
Alice WalkerTags: writing writers people silence mind characters silent
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.
Mike BirbigliaTags: writers people plans night saturday
I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned, or a style of frock, a real public person, even a make of car. Then, I thought, I had a measure, I could guage the quality of the writing by its accuracy, by the extent to which it aligned with my own impressions, or improved upon them. I was fortunate that most English writing of the time was in the form of undemanding social documentary. I wasn't impressed by those writers (they were spread between South and North America) who infiltrated their own pages as part of the cast, determined to remind poor reader that all the characters and even they themselves were pure inventions and the there was a difference between fiction and life. Or, to the contrary, to insist that life was a fiction anyway. Only writers, I thought, were ever in danger of confusing the two.
Ian McEwanTags: writers fiction realism metafiction
Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.
Dr. SeussTags: reading books writers children-s-literature dr-seuss
Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.
Gary ReillyTags: writers
Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: books writers ideas insight thinkers notes drafts
The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
Kellie ElmoreTags: life books poetry writing writers philosophy on-writing authors
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
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