Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman CapoteTag: on-writing
A book is not completed till it's read.
Salman RushdieTag: reading on-writing
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.
Umberto EcoTag: writing on-writing stories storytelling obsession
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
Joyce Carol OatesTag: inspirational on-writing
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
Anne LamottTag: on-writing
When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.
Mary Higgins ClarkTag: on-writing revenge storytelling
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
Shannon HaleTag: on-writing
Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way)
Pseudonymous BoschTag: on-writing
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward AlbeeTag: writers on-writing authors
In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
And no one can help me. Not even you.
Tag: on-writing coda
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