Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
Marcus Valerius MartialisTags: writing writers literature creativity creative-process tradition literary-theory writing-process
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing creativity creative-process writing-advice writing-process
... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: books writing creativity book creative-process writing-advice editing writers-on-writing writing-process writing-books editing-humor writers-quotes writers-and-writing
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
Terry PratchettTags: writing writing-process
There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.
Alan WattTags: writing writing-advice writing-process writing-from-the-heart
(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotion pervade the books, sometimes almost unbearably, yet when you look at the writing, at the actual words, there's nothing to show that the scene is emotional at all. I think it is because Dunnett layers her novels, meaning that each event is informed by what has come before (and what came before that, and what came before that) but Dunnett doesn't signpost in the text that this is happening, leaving it to the reader to bring the relevant information to the table
C.S. PacatTags: tension writing-process dorothy-dunnett
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
Michelle M. PillowTags: character quote author writing-life writing-process michelle-pillow
People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. PillowTags: writing writing-craft fantasy fiction character author writing-life writing-process romance-novel michelle-pillow
I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: writing writing-philosophy writing-process
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: writing writing-philosophy writing-process
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