#authorship

The out-dated imagery of sitting over a dusty typewriter staring at blank pages for years is a fallacy and probably designed to keep you from living up to your fullest potential. ↗

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#authorship #being-a-writer #book-power #kytka #potential

Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused. ↗

— S.A.R.K.

#exclamation #punctuation #change

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#completely #different #different levels #enjoy #levels

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#authorship #editing #relationship