#write

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always, Charlotte ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#dreams #existence #goals #growing-up #inspiration

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writer

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. ↗

— Russell Banks

#care #love #people #want #who

One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death. ↗

— Philip Sington

#death

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#director #experience #life #living #performer

Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.)" -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#pears #writers-block #writers-block

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#writer-quotes #writing #writers-quotes

But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, "alright sucker, now what? ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#writing #writers-quotes

1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor. 3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake. 4. Pick one — fame or delight. 5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket. 6. Cunning and excess are your friends. 7. TV and liquor are your enemies. 8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m. 9. You’re done when the crows sing. ↗

— Ron Dakron

#dakron #on-writing #ron-dakron #rules #writers

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#early #early life #imprint #influence #leave