#writing

I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#different #different genres #genres #i #know

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#goal #keep #living #making #making a living

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#advanced #advanced age #age #fairly #i

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#ample #been #block #far #hasn

The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#additional #advice #any #buy #could

Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#east #enough #essential #feeling #get

I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different directions that I want to take them. You have a lot of freedom as a writer. ↗

— Rick Schroder

#characters #create #different #different directions #directions

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#books #i #lose #okay #says

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#book #court #down #get #i

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#clear #cliches #common #days #how