A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Albert CamusTag: on-writing
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
Stephen KingTag: on-writing memoir craft instruction-book
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was tempted to write porn, imaginary parents would appear over my shoulder and read what I was writing; just about the point that I managed to banish the imaginary parents, real children would lean over my shoulder and read what I was writing.
Neil GaimanTag: on-writing porn neil-gaiman-on-writing thoughts-on-writing
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
Oscar WildeTag: writers on-writing
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
Joyce Carol OatesTag: freedom on-writing pseudonym
In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?
Rainer Maria RilkeTag: inspirational art on-writing destiny
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Joyce Carol OatesTag: poetry on-writing
1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor.
2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor.
3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake.
4. Pick one — fame or delight.
5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket.
6. Cunning and excess are your friends.
7. TV and liquor are your enemies.
8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m.
9. You’re done when the crows sing.
Tag: writers on-writing rules author writing-process dakron ron-dakron writing-rules
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.
Bertrand RussellTag: inspirational on-writing
Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
John JakesTag: on-writing be-yourself
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