#write

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#obsessed #obsessions #write #you

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day. ↗

— Richard Russo

#every #every day #paper #pen #people

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried! ↗

— Leslie Austin

#inspirational #writers-quotes #inspirational

Words both written and read are my passion. ↗

— Leslie Austin

#inspiration #motto #writer #inspirational

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. ↗

— Eveli Acosta

#indie-author #indie-writing #writers #writers-life #writers-on-writing

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#between #bored #daydreaming #difference #doing

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#clouds #description #detective #methods #modern

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#come #differ #dread #during #gods