Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
Annie DillardTag: imagination writing belief writing-life
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
David Foster WallaceTag: writing-life
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
Eric MaiselTag: writing writing-life
Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.
Michelle M. PillowTag: character quote author writing-life writing-process michelle-pillow
People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take liberties with character descriptions.
Michelle M. PillowTag: writing writing-craft fantasy fiction character author writing-life writing-process romance-novel michelle-pillow
Look for the little loves. Find and shape the little bitternesses.
Ray BradburyTag: inspiration writing-life
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.
Margaret AtwoodTag: autobiography life-lessons life-and-living writing-life
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write...
...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror...
...there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites...
Tag: writing-humor writers-on-writing writing-life
No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.
Neil YoungTag: writing writing-life
I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to write a book that is not about me, I may be totally stumped and have writer's block. We will see. Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time. I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next. You could hire someone to write it for you if you can't write it yourself. That doesn't seem to matter. Just don't hire some sweaty hack who asks you questions for years and twists them into his own vision of what is right or wrong. Try to avoid doing that.
Neil YoungTag: writing-life advise hacks
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