#writers

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient." [The Guardian, 25 February 2010] ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#distraction #inspiration #openness #problem-solving #procrastination

Writing isn’t necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#inspirational-writerse #writers #writing #inspirational

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

— Richard Russo

#every #every day #paper #pen #people

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

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#american literature #back #forever #leave #literature

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#each #friends #hard #hard job #idea

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ↗

— Alden Nowlan

#american #american writers #background #been #come

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#business #few #genius #i #legend