You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
Isaac AsimovTags: persistence writing
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert FrostAn original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
François-René de ChateaubriandTags: imitation writing originality writers
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
Anaïs NinTags: writing
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni MorrisonYou have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: books writing writers children difficult grown-ups write
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
George OrwellTags: writing
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J.D. SalingerWhen you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.
Willard R. EspyTags: writing
A dear and long-time friend,... asked me, "Jack, how long does it usually take you to write a book?" I replied, "Of course it depends on the project and its requirements, each book has its own rules. But for a statement to the world at large, once I've thought a book through and written it in my mind, it takes me around a week or so, depending on this and that, ordinarily at the rate of a chapter a day, but I've had some two-chapters day and some chapters have taken two days. And then of course there is revision, but around a week is about right." He seemed surprised, and I was surprised by his surprise, so I thought, maybe I'm wrong. I went home and wrote this book, at the perfectly normal pace of a chapter a day, as usual...
Jacob NeusnerTags: writing writing-craft
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