#writing

All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? ↗

— Steven Saylor

#act #does #even #grocery #how

Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#articles #book #dealing #doing #drop

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#laughter #writing #art

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#because #culture #education #environments #into

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#writing #age

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death

Write as though your life depended on it. ↗

— Jill Telford

#life #life-changing #writing #writing-advice #change

In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surprised again and again, we have to keep changing our minds, or give up and disbelieve the writer. In real life, if people think they know you well enough not only to say, 'It's Tuesday, Amy must be helping out at the library today,' but well enough to say to the librarian, after you've left the building, 'You know, Amy just loves reading to the four-year-olds, I think it's been such a comfort for her since her little boy died'—if they know you like that, you can do almost anything where they can't see you, and when they hear about it, they will, as we do, simply disbelieve the narrator. ↗

— Amy Bloom

#storytelling #writing #change

I finished the [blog] post reflecting on the fact that, despite all the changes in my life, maybe I wasn't so different after all. If I typed it, maybe I could believe it, too. ↗

— Stephanie Nielson

#blogging #change #hope #life #time

it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot worse than trying to coin some terms of their own: to name the archetypes they wish to invert or criticise and thereby open up the discussion. If authors can be thought of as magicians in any sense, then the root of our power has always rested with words: choosing them, arranging them and – most powerfully – inventing them. Sexism won’t go away overnight, and nor will literary bias. But until then, if we’re determined to invest ourselves in bringing about those changes, it only makes sense to arm ourselves with a language that we, and not our enemies, have chosen. May 14, 2011 Blog post ↗

— Foz Meadows

#importance-of-words #language #literary-bias #writings #change