#writ

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. ↗

— Stephanie Connolly

#reading #words #writing #inspirational

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard. ↗

— Marissa Meyer

#marissa-meyer #motivational #writing #inspirational

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#on-writing #inspirational

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#air #am #copy #exists #fashion

...kapag binisita ka ng idea, gana o inspirasyon, kailangan mong itigil LAHAT ng ginagawa mo para lang di masayang ang pagkakataon. Walang “sandali lang” o “teka muna”. Dahil pag lumagpas ang maikling panahong yon, kahit mag-umpog ka ng ulo sa pader mahihirapan ka nang maghabol. ↗

— Bob Ong

#writing-advice #writing-process #inspirational

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#writing #inspirational

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it. ↗

— David Morrell

#writing #inspirational

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#been #bore #i #knowing #me

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#nature-writing #inspirational