#writing

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#dark #fiction #funny #humor #inspirational

Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly and precisely, with immense assurance building, building; a voice too far off for him to hear, but speaking. ("Novelty") ↗

— John Crowley

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Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option. ↗

— Warren Adler

#inspirational-success-failure #writing-advice #inspirational

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#ownership #silence #writing #inspirational

Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a packed suitcase. It did so now. So she did what many a researcher both great and insignificant does when they are stuck. She yawned while contemplating how to catch the Muse by surprising Her. Almost invariably, the Muse has seen it all before - and also yawns. ↗

— Mavis Cheek

#inspiration #muse #writers-on-writing #inspirational

Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words. ↗

— Lisa Fantino

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Writers think with their soul and draft from their heart ↗

— Lisa Fantino

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It’s a choice, writing is. One that belongs to you and me. We get to choose it (or not) every single day. So whether or not the world hears your message — whether you leave the impact you were born to make — is entirely up to you. ↗

— Jeff Goins

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To write freely is to walk a joyous, terrifying, exhilarating path naked through the world of the fully clothed. ↗

— Michele Garber

#writing #writing-life #inspirational

...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#science-fiction #writing #inspirational