Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
Don RoffTags: words writing writers writing-advice torture expectations writing-process tips revising tips-on-writing finishing
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.
Marcel ProustTags: writers shakespeare illness artistic-temperment
My view on writers? We all have the same shovels, but never dig in the same places or to the exact same depth
Carl HeneganTags: writers
All authors go to heaven; we have paid our dues on earth by choosing to the hellish career of writing
Carl HeneganTags: writers heaven-career
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him--they were part of his "road," the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.
Joyce JohnsonTags: love writers memoir kerouac pisces
I often said that writers are of two types.
There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.
And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.
No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.
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I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.
Rayne HallTags: writing writers writing-life
The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential.
Kytka Hilmar-JezekTags: writers authors potential authorship being-a-writer book-power kytka
I always wanted to be a writer, and I always wrote something – stories, poetry, articles, newsletters, letters. Most writers can't help themselves! It's a compulsion.
Marina OliverTags: writers
If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.
Shannon L. AlderTags: writers fearless bluntness inspirational-authors
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