Keep on Keeping on Until You Stop – advice from Geoff Dryer QUOTES FOR WRITERS
In my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. … Continue reading
Bored with your story? Hate your characters? That’s OK says Sophie Kinsella QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Everybody, no matter who they are gets to the middle of a book and thinks crikey, I’ve had enough of this. You get bored with your story and your characters, … Continue reading
Making a Poem – Eavan Boland QUOTES FOR WRITERS
If you can’t do a poem, you can do a line. And if you can’t do a line, you can do an image — and that pathway that leads you … Continue reading
To Hell With It All but only if…Colum MCann QUOTES FOR WRITERS
To hell with grammar, but only if you know the grammar first. To hell with formality, but only if you have learned what it means to be formal. To hell … Continue reading
The Valley of Failure is where Writers hang out…Julian Gough QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Hey, see the Mountain of Success, way over there? The only way to get to it is through the Valley of Failure. There is no other way. It’s a peculiarity … Continue reading
“… through storytelling we share knowledge, recover from trauma, survive, thrive, re-build, testify…” Danny Denton QUOTES FOR WRITERS
And if “story” (be it journalism, memoir, poetry, fiction, chat, therapy, weather talk or whatever else) is our way of processing the things that happen to us and the things … Continue reading
Reaching down for the authentic…Anne Rice QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don’t know everything about it. You can’t.Anne Rice
Anthony Burgess on the bare bones of language QUOTES FOR WRITERS
There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth. Anthony Burgess Image Credit: OpenClipart-Vectors from … Continue reading
Learn New Things and go on Fantastic Adventures – Lydia Davies QUOTES FOR WRTERS
There is a great deal to be learned from programs, courses, and teachers. But I suggest working equally hard, throughout your life, at learning new things on your own, from … Continue reading
QUOTES FOR WOMEN on the eve on INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
If you don’t like my ocean don’t fish in my sea. Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.Ma Rainey Wherever you go, you meet part of your … Continue reading
Crisis is where we get the true measure of a character…George Saunders QUOTES FOR WRITERS
To get any forward momentum, I have to make stories that have drama, which for me often means putting some overt threat in there. And I’m not subtle. To make … Continue reading
Poems are a way of looking at yourself – Michael Rosen QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Poems are like photos in a photo album …It gives you a chance to look at yourself. Rather like the way people do when they’ve got two mirrors.Michael Rosen Photo … Continue reading
Writing comes out of affliction…Edna O’ Brien QUOTES FOR WRITERS
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. Edna O’Brien Photo Credit:Jonathan Rados on Unsplash
Writing is a lonely place – Rachel Carson QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Writing is a lonely occupation at best. Of course there are stimulating and even happy associations with friends and colleagues, but during the actual work of creation the writer cuts … Continue reading
