Where Stephen King gets his ideas QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
So where do the ideas—the salable ideas—come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that … Continue reading
…Writing is showbusiness for shy people…Lee Child QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy … Continue reading
What artists have to do in times of trouble – Toni Morrison QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, … Continue reading
Even in Space there’s a Double Standard …quotes from Carrie Fisher
Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally. You can play Leia as capable, independent, sensible, a soldier, a fighter, a woman in control – control being, of course, … Continue reading
Laughter and Good Humour are Contagious – Charles Dickens QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and … Continue reading
How to deal with the problems of writing a novel – H.G. Wells QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it. H.G. Wells
How writers should be treated by Robert A. Heinlen QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation … Continue reading
You don’t get to say you’re bored – Louis CK – QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
“I’m bored” is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own … Continue reading
Poets can wait for inspiration, novelists can’t – Neil Gaiman QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count … Continue reading
“…there is only one of you in all of time…” Martha Graham on creative expression QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, … Continue reading
“…a child’s discovery of his or her voice must be one of the most extraordinary of life’s moments…” Leonard Bernstein QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Though I can’t prove it, deep in my heart I know that every person is born with the love of learning. Without exception. Every infant studies its toes and fingers, … Continue reading
The problem with writing a book in verse…Dr Seuss QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound … Continue reading
“A blank page is also a door…” David Mitchell QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
A blank page is also a door — it contains infinity, like a night sky with a supermoon really close to the Earth, with all the stars and the galaxies, … Continue reading
On first being published…James M Barry QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. … Continue reading
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