#writing

The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philisohpical #philosphy #writers #writers-block #writers-on-writing

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#writing-craft

If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either". ↗

— James M. Cain

#writing-craft #writing-craft

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#consistency #details #dramatic-effect #facts #sherlock-holmes

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#good-books #great-writing #reading #writing-books

Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking at you on that bright white screen, realizing that you now have to come up with three or ten or twenty pages of text all on your own - it's enough to give anyone a major case of writer's block! ↗

— Stefanie Weisman

#writing #writers-block

I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth? ↗

— John Waters

#writing-books

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#writing-books

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#writing-books