#writing

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#nerves #pretty #writing

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ("The Castle") ↗

— Michael Connelly

#writing #writing-craft #perseverance

If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison ↗

— Sean Liburd

#reading #toni-morrison #writing-life #life

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#life

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay. ↗

— Richard Rodriguez

#essay #life #private #public #richard-rodriguez

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned. ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#travel #travel-writing #life

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life

Making Life means making trouble ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#pygmalion #life

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#re-writing #soul #writing #life

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. ↗

— Michael Martone

#story #writing #life