In time, most children stop being puzzled in this way. They settle in. The world around them, as it becomes familiar and daily, becomes ordinary. But for writers, like children who have never quite grown up, life retains a quality of strangeness; it remains a matter of questions for which there are no satisfactory answers, of hidden motives, displaced explanations, subtle concealments and mysteries. Eavesdropping of one kind or another, keeping an eye open and an ear cocked, even in public places, for the giveaway facial expression or gesture, the revealing word, becomes a settled habit for the writer, a necessary part of his professional equipment: the laying down of small scraps of information, of observation or experience, for future use.
David MaloufTags: writing
The key to revising is to let the writing get 'cold' between revisions; a time lapse between readings enables you to read the draft more objectively and see what you have actually said, instead of what you meant to say.
Claire B. May and Gordon S. MayTags: writing accounting handbook
Read your paper backward, sentence by sentence, as a final proofreading step. This technique isolates each sentence and makes it easier to spot errors you may have overlooked in previous readings.
Claire B. May Gordon S. MayTags: writing proofreading accounting handbook
Any difficult task seems easier if you break it down into manageable steps.
Claire B. May Gordon S. MayTags: writing accounting handbook
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.Tags: inspirational writing inspiration writers-block
A chapter written is a word learned.
Chloé ClaesTags: writing
I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of Oscar Wilde, I want to do the wide sultry heavens of Conrad, the rolled-gold sundowns and crazy-quilt skies of Hitchens and Kipling as well as the pastel dawns and twilights of Chesterton. All that is by way of example. As a matter of fact I am a professed literary thief, hot after the best methods of every writer in my generation.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: words style writing literature
(Writing is) the transformation, through an elaborate impersonation, of a personal emergency into a public act (in both senses of that word).
Philip RothTags: writing
Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.
Ellie AnnTags: books writing ideas novels
Writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you.
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