“Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity not hampered by opinion.”
~Haircrow
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.”
~D McCullough
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
~Arthur Schopenhauer
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
~Robert Hughes
“In writing, don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
~C.S. Lewis
“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”
~Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
~Joseph Chilton Pierce
“You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.”
~William S. Burroughs
“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”
~Vanna Bonta
“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That’s my advice with dealing with writers block. Follow the fun. If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong.”
~Jordan Peele
“Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
~Albus Dumbledore
“If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.”
~CHARLAINE HARRIS
“Stories are the currency of human contact.”
~Robert McKee
“I can’t blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I’ve spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I’ll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.”
~Colson Whitehead
