A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: writing writers courage cowardice readers guts
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of coarse you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.
Stephen KingTags: inspirational writing creative
I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.'
‘Oh Christ !’
‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just write them of. You must be curious about them. Curiosity is kind of charity.’
‘I don’t think curiosity is a kind of charity. I think it’s a kind of malice.’
‘That’s what makes a writer, knowing the details.’
‘It may make your kind of writer. It doesn’t make mine.’
‘Here we go again,’ said Arnold.
‘Why pile up a jumble of “details”? When you start really imagining something you have to forget the details anyhow, they just get in the way. Art isn’t the reproduction of oddments out of life.’
‘I never said it was!’ said Arnold. ‘I don’t draw direct from life.’
‘Your wife thinks you do.’
‘Oh that. Oh God.’
‘Inquisitive chatter and cataloguing of things one’s spotted isn’t art. ‘
‘Of course it isn’t -‘
‘Vague romantic myth isn’t art either. Art is imagination. Imagination changes, fuses. Without imagination you have stupid details on one side and empty dreams on the othet.’
‘Bradley, I know you -‘
‘Art isn’t chat plus fantasy. Art comes out of endless restraint and silnce.’
‘If the silence is endless there isn’t any art! It’s people without creative gifts who say that more mean worse!’
‘One should only complete something when one feels one’s bloody privileged to have it all. Those who only do what’s easy will never be rewarded by -‘
‘Nonsense. I write whether I feel like it or not. I complete things whether I think they’re perfect or not. Anything else is hypocrisy. I have no muse. That’s what being a professional writer is.’
‘Then thank God I’m not one.’…
Tags: art writing philosophy
The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments, and maybe hardships, unimportant...Nothing befalls him that he cannot transmute into a stanza, a song, or a story, and having done this, be rid of it. The artist is the only free man.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: writing transmuting-life-into-art
Show me the contract.
Buffy AndrewsTags: writing quotes writers-on-writing writers-world writers-life
If rejections were cash, I'd be rich
Buffy AndrewsTags: writing quotes writers-quotes writers-world writers-life
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due.
Bill CondonTags: writing
It's just not as hot without biting, scratching, and spanking, involved.
Jennifer SalaizTags: love writing sex bdsm couples hot erotica spanking biting scratching
We write because we need somewhere for the stories in our heads to live.
Dana GeorgeTags: writing
Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a quiet night; you’ll pick up the cadence. Look at the patterns the wind makes in dry sand and you’ll see how syllables in a sentence should fall. Arthur Gordon
Arthur GordonTags: words writing patterns cadence
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