#writ

Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#business #countries #faith #fiction #lost

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#best #just #just do it #think #writing

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. ↗

— Tim Vine

#access #childlike #comic #get #important

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. ↗

— Tim Vine

#coffee #dates #day #deadline #every

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#after #characters #decided #female #female characters

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#consciousness #cultural #decades #easy #eighteen

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#guts #helpful #necessary #talent #writing

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#best #better #contemplate #darkness #despair

The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#both #doors #every #exist #farm