#writ

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#intuition

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#punishment

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#reading #writing #meditation

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies. ↗

— Lauren Groff

#on-fiction #writing #writing-craft

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999] ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#creativity #originality #point-of-view #uniqueness #writing

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#college

To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. ↗

— Michelle Richmond

#degree #write #writer #college

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#semi-colons #writing #college

Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#word-choice #writing #choice

It is the tale, not he who tells it. ↗

— Stephen King

#king