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When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet


Strider Marcus Jones


#nothing #silence #solitude #writers-block #inspirational

A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear.


Caroline Gerardo


#inspirational

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries.


Kate Zambreno


#women-writers #men

The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.


Katherine Paterson


#inspirational #resources #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

You connect yourself to the viewer by by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you.


Steven Brust


#writing #writing-inspiration #inspirational

The stories are not made, they are discovered.


Chandan Sharma


#inspirational #literature #writers #inspirational

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

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.


Ernest Borgnine


#i #make #now #pictures #right

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.


Alain de Botton


#am #happy #hegel #i #i am

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.


Poppy Z. Brite


#cliched #effect #fiction #film #had






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