#writing

All his elaborated arguments and beautiful sentences turned, under the influence of alcohol, into dust and slipped between his nicotine-stained fingers. ↗

— Ole Gunnar Håland

#dust #writing #beauty

To stop crying, my Raisa... laugh. ↗

— Esther Friesner

#beauty

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#letters-to-monica #poet #poetry #writing #youth

As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#business

As I quietly stare off into space, eyes glazed over and brow thoughtfully taut, know that I am going about my business.  I am a storyteller.  Daydreaming is the best part of my job. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#daydreaming #richelle #richelle-goodrich #storytelling #writing

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#online-interview #reading #writing #business

I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever. ↗

— John Irving

#failing #failure #piggy-sneed #save #saving

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted. ↗

— S.J. Perelman

#business

the writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off. ↗

— Keith Miller

#business

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street. ↗

— Martin Amis

#novels #writing #business