#writers

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run ↗

— Channing Pollock

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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writers-on-writing #life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

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I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy. ↗

— Rayne Hall

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Writers are the wind that sail words across the page. ↗

— Laurie Buchanan

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Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writers #writing-process #life

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern