#writing

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ~Dorothea Brande ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#writers #writing #inspirational

...Tolstoy, one of the most interesting men who ever lived, explains that mystery of "interestingness" and how it passes from writer to reader. It is an *infection*. And it is *immediate*. ↗

— Brenda Euland

#tolstoy #writing #men

Write from the soul, not from some notion about what you think the marketplace wants.The market is fickle; the soul is eternal'. ↗

— Jeffrey Carver

#market #soul #writing #inspirational

Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#tina-turner #writing #inspirational

Stories. Character. Dialouge. Entire worlds created on the page. Worlds that could sweep you away or frighten you, make you laugh or cry. Worlds that allowed you to escape to another country or time. Worlds built piece by piece of ink and punctuation. ↗

— Jamie Michaels

#on-writing #storytelling #inspirational

So I have 8 to 10 screenplays written and unproduced. And frankly, some of them are my favorite stories. I have a Western version of The Count Of Monte Cristo where the count has a clockwork hand. I have a screenplay called Mephisto's Bridge about a Faustian deal with the devil. I love them all. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#love

I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ↗

— Petrarch

#writing #death

I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown. ↗

— Shandy L. Kurth

#author #freedom #pressure #reading #stress

We're not mad. We're inhabited ↗

— Sue Moorcroft

#romance #sue-moorcroft #writing-craft #love

Some people have a lot of time, but no money-- It's because they don't work hard enough. Some people have a lot of money, but no time-- It's because they don't work smart enough. The most successful people have both. ↗

— Bob Sharpe

#home-based-business #home-business #internet-marketing #network-marketing #write-a-book