You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.
J. K. Rowling

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I’m certain of further happiness

Renard

#reading #writing

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn’t the writing; it’s the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?”

WILLIAM ZINSSER

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

Art Anthony Clarkson

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. ~GEORGE ORWELL

If you are a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
NIKKI GIOVANNI

amwriting #writing #writinglife

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
René Descartes

Literature above all is a mode of transport. It lifts you up out of whatever situation you’re in and it puts you down somewhere else. It fucking escapes you. That’s what literature is.

KEVIN BARRY

amwriting #writing

A screenwriter is not really a writer; his words do not appear on the screen. What he does is to draft out blueprints that are executed by a team.
PAUL SCHRADER

screenwriting #writing

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer’s head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

HILMA WOLITZER
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema