The Only Time to Write – Isabel Paterson QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The fact is writing can only be done during the time when one ought to be doing something else.Isabel Paterson Photo credit: Jonathan Francisca on Unsplash
Writing is Hard Work – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.Stephen King Photo Credit: Craig Whitehead on Unsplash
There’s Only One Requirement if You Want to Be A Writer – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.Stephen King Photo … Continue reading
Write what you REALLY see – Louise Doughty QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The first thing any art teacher tells a child is draw what they really see, rather than what they think something ought to look like. The same is true of … Continue reading
Friday Writing Prompt
A Picture + An Idea = who knows what or where it will take you They have not just got married. Photo credit: thituzi from Pixabay
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
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
Writers, ever had this feeling? Vladimir Nabokov QUOTES FOR WRITERS
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. Vladimir Nabokov Picture credit: Image … Continue reading
Don’t wait to write – Henry David Thoreau QUOTES FOR WRITING
Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with.Henry David Thoreau … Continue reading
START THE WEEK with a creative writing exercise that will work for ever and ever….
Actually, this isn’t a writing exercise at all. It is a writing prompt. There’s a difference: an exercise is designed, it is crafted and – ideally – should be tested … Continue reading
It is all in the details – Stephen King QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand … Continue reading
What happens when we allow ourselves to write freely…Sharon Olds QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Whenever we give our pen some free will, we may surprise ourselves. All that wanting to seem normal in regular life, all that fitting in falls away in the face … Continue reading
Clive James on originality QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Scarcely anything is original. It’s very hard to be totally inventive, so I’m not terribly interested in originality. Vitality is all I care about. CLIVE JAMES Photo by Sharon Pittaway on Unsplash
There’s self-respect in making things, says poet Sharon Olds QUOTES FOR WRITERS
Writing or making anything — a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake — has self-respect in it. You’re working. You’re trying. You’re not lying down on the ground, having … Continue reading
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