This is what separates artists from ordinary people…Anne Lamott QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We … Continue reading
What books have taught me – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented … Continue reading
Seamus Heaney answers the age-old question: does poetry change anything? QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world. Seamus Heaney
Remember…Stephen Hawking QUOTES FOR WRITERS and everyone really…
Remember to look up at the stars & not down at your feet.Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. However difficult … Continue reading
What you get from Reading – Dr Seuss QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. Dr Seuss Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash
Dorothy Parker’s definition of creativity QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye Dorothy Parker
Definition of a non-writing writer – QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity Franz Kafka
The important things that children’s books say: QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Children’s books say: the stories of the world are infinite, and various, and unpredictable. They say: you will count for something. They say: bravery will matter, wit will matter, empathy … Continue reading
A good book is a good book whatever the sex of the author – Anne Bronte QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for … Continue reading
The power of words QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how … Continue reading
H.G.Wells on the strongest passion of all QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
No Passion in the World Is Equal to the Passion to Alter Someone Else’s Draft H.G. Wells
Where Agatha Christie found her plots QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Years ago I got my plots in the tub, the old-fashioned, rim kind — just sitting there thinking, undisturbed, and lining the rim with apple cores. Agatha Christie
Why you need to know the end of your story when you write the beginning – Edgar Allen Poe QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Nothing is more clear than that every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before any thing be attempted with the pen. It is only with the … Continue reading
The pain and pleasure of writing a novel Dean Koontz QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dean Koontz
