#writing

Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#warren-ellis #writing #writers-on-writing

I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time to time, and speak, when invited to writers' circles and at summer schools, and I'm continually amazed at the number of would-be writers who scarcely read. For ideas to germinate and proliferate there has to be fertile ground to sow them in, and for the ground to be fertile it must be mulched with observation, imagination, and other writing. ↗

— Sarah Harrison

#imagination

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins. ↗

— Paula McLain

#humor #writing #funny

Funny + sad is what I'm pitching for, every time. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#funny

It’s a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday. ↗

— Gary Reilly

#funny

I like to write in poorly lit conditions. It allows darkness to creep into my humor, and bad eyesight to excuse me from accountability. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #writing #funny

I sat down and tried to write a story. "Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wears glasses and peers out of them with delight." That was the first sentence. The problem was that I just couldn't think of the next one. After cleaning my room three times, I decided to leave Ian alone for a while because I was starting to get mad at him. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#funny #humor #writer-s-block #writing #writing-process

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit... ↗

— Megan S. Johnston

#fiction-writing #first-in-series #new-author #paranormal-romance-series #paranormal-series

If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth. ↗

— Daoud Hari

#inspirational-quotes #writing #beauty

Your understanding and interpretation of [a novel] is undoubtedly unique…and that is the real beauty of the relationship that joins readers, books and writers together in a literary trinity—a bookish triumvirate. ↗

— Briar Kit Esme

#writing #beauty