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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. ↗


— Ernest Hemingway


#new #write #writer #men

There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold very few copies, the writer thought he was great. If what the writer wrote never was published and he didn't have enough the money to publish it himself, then he thought he was truly great. The truth, however, was there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers had the most confidence, the least self-doubt. Anyway, writers were to be avoided, and I tried to avoid them, but it was almost impossible. They hoped for some sort of brotherhood, some kind of togetherness. None of it had anything to do with writing, none of it helped at the typewriter. ↗


— Charles Bukowski


#writing #money

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985) ↗


— Kurt Vonnegut


#style #writer #writers-quotes #writing #music

When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play! ↗


— Mehmet Murat ildan


#music

See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little?" Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination. ↗


— Joey W. Hill


#marguerite #tyler #nature

...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely... ↗


— John Geddes


#garden #nature #writers #writing-advice #love

When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if they draw on these limited resources like spend thrifts such resemblances will be inevitable--and therefore not significant. ↗


— Mary Lascelles


#social-world #storytelling #writers #art

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generations. We'll be forgotten, but our books and essays, our stories and poems can survive us. . . ↗


— Lee Gutkind


#writers-on-writing #writing #writing-life #art

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart. ↗


— Chuck Palahniuk


#broken

I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist? ↗


— Kiera Woodhull


#imagination #insomnia #writer #writing #dreams






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