#writing

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths. ↗

— Mark Piper

#inspirational #writing #imagination

The good days are when you perform; the slow days are when you learn to perform better. The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#inspirational

He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens. ↗

— Shadowlands

#shadowlands #writing #inspirational

There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too. ↗

— Sara Gran

#writing #inspirational

The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how life itself works. ↗

— John Truby

#imagination

My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vivdness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#on-writing-frankenstein #writing-craft #imagination

I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#exploration #self-discovery #writing #inspirational

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#writers #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#inspiration #intuition #writing #inspirational

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#writing #inspirational