#writ

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#comes #day #every #every day #going

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#any #because #coffee #end #feel

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant! ↗

— Pat Morita

#away #been #detail #i #just

I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comics #writing-punk #inspirational

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#books #focusing #helpful #into #just

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. ↗

— Willie Morris

#heart #his #home #knows #must

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#tyranny #writing #inspirational

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. ↗

— John Mortimer

#dread #fear #fearful #feel #flattered

I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#did #except #form #i #knew

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#book #ever #finish #i #months