#writ

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#daunting #get #i #inspiration #just

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#guts #his #other #out #overcoat

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#book #consumed #i #i think #need

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#because #discipline #looking #love #sell

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#contemplation #creativity #days #eat #expression

Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature. ↗

— Cynthia Weil

#i #i think #mature #really #say

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out. ↗

— Margaret Weis

#books #character #choice #choices #endless

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on. ↗

— Devon Werkheiser

#before #figured #gauge #girl #i

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

#always #enough #i #interest #interests