#writing

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ↗

#grammar #speech #spelling #synonyms #vocabulary

I feel as though whenever I create something, my Mr. Hyde wakes up in the middle of the night and starts thrashing it. I sometimes love it the next morning, but other times it is an abomination. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #creativity #dr-jekyll #dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde #genius

Write to your heart’s content and by all means, have fun with your creation. It’s your moment to do absolutely anything within those pages. ↗

— Jennifer Murgia

#angel #star #storytelling #writing #storytelling

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start." (Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#dialogue #writing #paris

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#humor

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.. ↗

— Gabriel García Márquez

#humor #lying #on-fiction #writing #humor

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #on-writing #wit #writing #humor

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#writing #humor

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. ↗