#writing

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#writing #inspirational

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#writing #art

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. ↗

— Jyrki Vainonen

#artists #creativity #surrealism #writers #writing

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#imagination #writing #imagination

Writing and breathing are two things that feel most natural for me. ↗

— Susan Stovall

#nature

Good fiction creates its own reality. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#fiction

I just write whenever I can. ↗

— Elmer Kelton

#writing-craft #writing-craft

It's the writing that teaches you. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing-craft #writing-craft

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#reading #writing-books

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

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