That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
Chuck PalahniukTags: writing-life
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: writing-life
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest HemingwayTags: writing-life
If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.
Anne LamottTags: writing writing-advice writing-life
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself. I have never written anything that I didn't want my name attached to. I have probed deeper in some scripts and I've been more successful in some than others. But all of them that have been on, you know, I'll take my lick. They're mine and that's the way I wanted them.
Rod SerlingTags: art writing-life television-quotes
I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.
Rod SerlingTags: television writing-life
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.
Isaac AsimovTags: writing-life
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
Julia CameronTags: writing writing-life
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
Ariel GoreTags: writing-life
Some words may make you happy, some may make you said. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear.
Patricia MacLachlanTags: writing-life
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