#write

I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something. ↗

— Julie Ann Dawson

#writer-s-block #writing #inspirational

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#writer #writers #inspirational

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#writing #change

Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking. ↗

— Hélène Cixous

#feminism #inspirational #write #inspirational

Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within. ↗

— Patricia Hickman

#outer-banks #southern-fiction #southern-writers #inspirational

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

#solitude #write #inspirational

Professional writers write to fit ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

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...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum... ↗

— John Geddes

#eulogy #maudlin #muse #slum #streets

That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#different #end #find #got #growing

Before there were books, we read each other. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers #women-writers-on-writing #writing #science