#writ

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#live

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#novel #rules #three #unfortunately #writing

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#free time #know #leave #lot #should

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#arts-and-humanities #creative-process #writing #art

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#love

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #reading #writing #beauty

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#women #writing #freedom

You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#writing #funny

Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#humor

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #humour #work #writing #humor