I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
Louis L'AmourTags: writing writing-craft writing-life
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Marcus AureliusTags: writing-craft life-and-living
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
Thomas HarrisTags: writing writing-craft
You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.
Linus PaulingTags: writing writing-craft
It's the writing that teaches you.
Isaac AsimovTags: writing writing-craft
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: writing writing-craft
You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.
Rick AsterTags: writing-craft mysticism
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
Ernest HemingwayTags: writing-craft writing-process
I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
George Bernard ShawTags: writing-craft
The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and taking a meaning is not automatic and inevitable
Jacques BarzunTags: writing-craft
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