I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?' I've been writing about a subject I love as long as I can remember--horses and the people associated with them, anyplace, anywhere, anytime. I couldn't be happier knowing that young people are reading my books. But even more important to me is that I've enjoyed so much the writing of them.
Walter FarleyTags: life inspirational passion writing writers be-yourself authors life-lessons enjoy-life writers-on-writing author-quotes follow-your-dreams
...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...
John GeddesTags: writing writers creativity writing-process
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
John GeddesTags: writers wonder writing-process message medium
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.
Cornell WoolrichTags: writing writers fiction creativity pulp
That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.
His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder")
Tags: writing writers fiction fiction-writing pulp-fiction pulp
I am the penny whistle of American literature.
Nelson AlgrenTags: writers
Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?
Rudy FranciscoTags: reading writing writers readers
Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.
Philip AthansTags: writers curiosity writing-advice intellect adivce
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.
Brad LeithauserTags: writing writers writing-craft metaphor astronomy astronomer writing-life novelists telescope chile
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.
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