Quotes about writ
writing succeed rudeness
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway. Stephen King
writing careers littles
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
writing imagination world
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
writing thinking stuff
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
writing thinking fans
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
writing thinking people
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
writing long answers
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.
writing fiction paragraph
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
writing simple complexes
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.
writing secret done
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
writing trying paint
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
writing remember novel
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
writing trying caviar
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
writing reality littles
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
writing fiction stories
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.
writing roots airborne
I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing
writing roots magic
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.
writing very-good
Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
writing hard-work dedication
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one
writing doors water
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.
writing trying salami
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
writing space stories
Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.
writing important stories
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.
writing way lifeless
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.
writing mood
I started writing seriously when I was about 12.I am always in the mood.
writing garden self
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.
writing snakes scare
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.
writing thinking
I write to find out what I think.
writing order looks
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."
writing player rocks
When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.
writing thinking phobia
I think we tend to write out our phobias.
writing language enough
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.