To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert FrostTag: poetry on-writing afflictions
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset MaughamTag: writing on-writing
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: on-writing
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
David SedarisTag: on-writing
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Michael CrichtonTag: books on-writing rewritten written
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise PascalTag: poetry opening-lines on-writing despair creative-process life-and-death
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
Leo TolstoyTag: on-writing storytelling
When King Lear dies in act five, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He has written, 'He dies.' No more. No fanfare, no metaphor, no brilliant final words. The culmination of the most influential piece of dramatic literature is, 'He dies.' Now I am not asking you to be happy at my leaving but all I ask you to do is to turn the page and let the next story begin.
-- Mr. Magorium
Tag: on-writing
A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.
Chris BatyTag: writing simile on-writing rough-drafts
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
Raymond ChandlerTag: writing on-writing revision
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