#writing

It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set - which was kind of shallow in my case anyway - had begun to fade. ↗

— Joan Didion

#after #anyway #before #begun #berkeley

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #even #every #feel #get

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#connects #interests #me #might #place

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. ↗

— Rita Dove

#began #college #entire #entire life #i

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music. ↗

— Jim Davis

#capabilities #debilitating #focus #give #handicap

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#storytelling #literature

Stephen King once told me he liked my writing. And that was great. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#king #liked #me #once #stephen

The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#first #gotten #i #more #since

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#always #artist #elvis #generosity #highly