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Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.


Joyce Carol Oates


#on-fiction #writing #life

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.


Stephen King


#life

The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.


Neil Gaiman


#life

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.


Steven Millhauser


#writing #life

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.


Paul Auster


#loneliness #paper #words #writer #writing

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.


Samuel Johnson


#writing #life

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.


Nadine Gordimer


#life

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.


Preston Sturges


#writing #life

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.


Richard Bausch


#life

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.


Julia Cameron


#writing-life #life






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