Magic Realism: it’s not just a fairytale moment – Salman Rushdie QUOTES FOR WRITERS
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean ‘magic’ and they don’t hear ‘realism’, whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic … Continue reading
If you want to write read trash – Joseph Brodsky QUOTES FOR WRITERS
In order to write a good book, a writer must read a great deal of trash — otherwise, he won’t be able to develop the necessary criteria. That’s what may … Continue reading
“You are most alive…in childhood” Edna O’Brien QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.Edna … Continue reading
What poets do…Laura Riding’s advice to a child QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A person might be able to make poems but be unable to make chairs, not because she could only make poems, but because it didn’t happen to her to make … Continue reading
It all depends on how you do it…says Julian Barnes QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Everything in art depends on execution: the story of a louse can be as beautiful as the story of Alexander. You must write according to your feelings, be sure those … Continue reading
…in continual triumph and defeat, in the present, alive…poet Muriel Rukeyser’s celebration of life QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life … Continue reading
When to Start the Second Draft – John Niven QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You definitely need space between the first and second draft. I’d recommend a couple of months…Because if you start the second draft when you’ve immediately finished the first one, it’s … Continue reading
I’m a very ruthless critic of my own work…Bernardine Evaristo QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I have to be inside the work and also looking at it from the outside as much as you can when you’re creating it yourself. So I’m a very ruthless … Continue reading
Procrastination: it’s not laziness, it’s fear – Catherine Ryan Howard QUOTES FOR WRITERS
You are afraid that when you actually sit down to start writing the book, it won’t be as good as the idea for the book you have in your head. … Continue reading
…the water is rising – Raymond Carver QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is … Continue reading
I feel entitled to write any story I want, in whatever way I want…QUOTES FOR WRITERS Bernardine Evaristo
Many of my characters are completely beyond my experience, but that’s what we do as writers, we write beyond our experience…I feel entitled to write any story I want, in … Continue reading
What People are Looking For – Joseph Campbell QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.Joseph Campbell
How Reviews Impact on a Writer – Ann Patchett QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it’s really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a … Continue reading
Books = World says Cornelia Funke QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.Cornelia Funke Image by Maya Nabrowski from Pixabay
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 