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It never ceases to amaze me how prosaic, pedestrian, unimaginative people can persistently pontificate about classical grammatical structure as though it's fucking rocket science. These must be the same people who hate Picasso, because he couldn't keep the paint inside the lines and the colors never matched the numbers.


Abbe Diaz


#structure #writing #science

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.


Lisa Cron


#women-writers-on-writing #writing-craft #writing-how-to #science

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.


Stephen King


#king #on-writing #stephen-king #information

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.


Arthur Conan Doyle


#belief #rewriting-history #sherlock-holmes #belief

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.


Will Self


#journals #memory #notebook #writing #information

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.


Kurt Vonnegut


#thought-experiments #writing-craft #experience

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer--such as it is--is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. This explains why so many books describe the author's childhood. A writer's childhood may well have been the occasion of his only firsthand experience. Writers read literary biography, and surround themselves with other writers, deliberately to enforce in themselves the ludicrous notion that a reasonable option for occupying yourself on the planet until your life span plays itself out is sitting in a small room for the duration, in the company of pieces of paper.


Annie Dillard


#experience

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.


Cao Yu


#best #during #i #just #life

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.


Robert Hughes


#writing-advice #writing-life #life

Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing--would you?' 'Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write--I can't help it at times--I've just got to.


L.M. Montgomery


#life






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