#writing

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do it with ease. Don't maul, don't suffer, don't groan till the first draft is finished. A play is a pheonix and it dies a thousand deaths. Usually at night. In the morning it springs up again from its ashes and crows like a happy rooster. It is never as bad as you think, it is never as good. It is somewhere in between, and success or failure depends on which end of your emotional gamut concerning its value it approaches more closely. But it is much more likely to be good if you think it is wonderful while you are writing the first draft. An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#death

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#writing #dreams

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #feel #fundamentally #got #i

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling. ↗

— Eric Bana

#comes #creative #creative process #i #me

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#attractive #autobiography #dead #most #things

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. ↗

— Dave Barry

#after #come #offending #people #problem

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ↗

— Mark Twain

#delete #editor #every #every time #inclined

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase. ↗

— Todd Barry

#erase #i #like #need #never

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#i #i wish #integrated #more #sometimes

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#been #easy #faucet #hard #just