#writing

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house. ↗

— Charles F. Lummis

#humor #writing #humor

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#on-writing #age

Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers! ↗

— Chocolate Waters

#writing #humor

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#imagination

Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a publisher who'll settle for a rough draft written on a Pop-Tart and a coconut lotion handie.. ↗

— Geoffrey Hill

#writing #humor

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#writing #imagination

Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes, knows peace, lives connected to truth. Not writing is ache, betrayal, death of the soul and imagination. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#betrayal #death #imagination #jamie-weise #love

What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#mystery #privacy #r-m-engelhardt #writing #imagination

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that such ecstasy remains as much a birthright in this world as misery remains a condition of it. ↗

— Larry Levis

#imagination

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#writing #imagination