#writing

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars. ↗

— Benjamin Orr

#felt #fight #i #increased #more

When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard. ↗

— David Sedaris

#hard #humor #i #i think #look

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. ↗

— John Pilger

#days #his #like #litmus #litmus test

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#i #learned #reading #went #write

Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat. ↗

— Katrina Monroe

#writing-life #life

Work. Don't Think. Relax. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#relaxation #writing #inspirational

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. ↗

— Ted Conover

#new-journalism #on-fiction #storytelling #writing #change

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#creativity #literature #novels #writers #writing