I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
Stephen J. CannellTags: writing writing-craft writing-life writing-philosophy writing-process
All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
George OrwellTags: books writing writing-craft literature
So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.
Annie DillardTags: reading books writing writing-craft readers-and-writers writing-process
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
Naguib MahfouzTags: writing-craft journalism
If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.
Robert McKeeTags: writing writing-craft screenwriting
One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.
Anne LamottTags: writing-craft parenting-children
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
Edgar Allan PoeTags: writing writing-craft
You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants.
Julie Ann DawsonTags: writing-craft criticism writer-feedback
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.
Milton LomaskTags: writing-craft
Humility is an essential quality in writers who want to write well.
Margaret Jean LangstaffTags: writing writers writing-craft writing-process
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