The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. "Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. "All the information you need can be given in dialogue." "If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic." "Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences." "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending." We all know we're going to die what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this." "In general…there's no point in writing hopeless novels. "Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up." "Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them." "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing."
Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life." "The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. ( 9 Virginia Woolf Quotes About Writing for Writers (and Readers)) "Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." "There's no such thing as writer's block. "I can't write five words but that I change seven." My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed." "The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with." "It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition." "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either." I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within." It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good." You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. ( 10 Edgar Allan Poe Quotes for Writers and About Writing) It's the one and only thing you have to offer." "Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged." "I went for years not finishing anything. "People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad." You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it."
"People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. "The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything." "A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer." "Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait." "Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen." "First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!" "I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly." ( 7 Toni Morrison Quotes for Writers and About Writing) It is there that we authors do most of our lying." "My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. "If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer." "Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." "A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God." He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer." "Any man who keeps working is not a failure.
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