...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.
John IrvingTag: writing-life
Pay attention, and use your imagination.
R.M. EngelhardtTag: poetry on-writing literature writing-life r-m-engelhardt
All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne LamottTag: writing writing-craft writing-life writing-process
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
Richard CurtisTag: writing publishing writing-life publish publishers
I have wrought my simple plan
If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who’s half a man,
Or the man who’s half a boy.
Tag: writing writing-life writing-from-the-heart
For years I dreamed of having the sort of massive oak slab that would dominate a room...
Stephen KingTag: writing-life
Her support was a constant, one of the few good things I could take as a given. And whenever I see a first novel dedicated to a wife (or a husband), I smile and think, There’s someone who knows.” Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot of difference. They don’t have to make speeches. Just believing is usually enough.
Stephen KingTag: writing-life
Do what you love, especially if your sharing the word
Ann SimpsonTag: writing-life readers-and-writers fiction-writing
Writing is the act of discovery.
Natalie GoldbergTag: writing writing-advice writing-life
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...
Joan DidionTag: writing-life
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