#writing

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#artist #color #create #creating #creation

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent ↗

— Mark O'Connell

#criticism #language #writing #art

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#literature #writing #art

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. ↗

— William Faulkner

#art

When I'm writing, really writing, everything but breathing is an ignorable distraction. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#how-to-write #on-writing #on-writing-fiction #art

On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#female-characters #how-to-write #nora-hawks #on-writing #art

If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or no! ↗

— Deb E. Howell

#writing #beauty

He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched. ↗

— Stephen King

#art

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#writing #art

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#beauty