#WriterWednesday - #Quotes About #Writing And Creativity - December 2018 #WednesdayWisdom

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
~Terry Pratchett

I am a writer. If I seem cold, it's because I am surrounded by drafts.
~Unknown

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
~Mark Twain

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
~Stephen King

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
~Ray Bradbury

There exists no one way to write any one thing, and as long as your writing has a starting point and an ending point, I think whatever shenanigans go on
in the middle serve you fine as a process as long as it gets you a finished book heavy with at least some small sense of satisfaction. If you’re not finishing
your books, you need to re-examine your process. If you’re not at all satisfied with your work, then again: re-examine that process. And that’s it. Everything else is just picking out drapes.
~Chuck Wendig

It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.
~C. J. Cherryh

I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.
~George R.R. Martin

If you have other things in your life—family, friends, good productive day work—these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.
~David Brin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
~Anais Nin

You don’t make art out of good intentions.
~Gustave Flaubert

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.
~Henri Nouwen

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
~Catie Curtis

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~Henry Ward Beecher