the writing QUOTES

84 " I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to the formidable task of illumination the human heart in conflict with itself-will do the opposite of expose you. It will connect you. With others. With the world around you. With yourself. "

― Dani Shapiro , Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

85 " It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. "

― Steven Pressfield , The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

86 " Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . . "

― Dennis R. Miller , One Woman's Vengeance

87 " When strangers on a train or a plane ask what I do for a living, I say, " I kill people." This response makes for a short conversation. No eye contact and no sudden movement from my seat-mate. Only peace and quiet. Rare is the fellow passenger who asks why I do it.I suppose I got tired hanging out in a book all day waiting for a story to begin. I write the kind of novels I want to read. And why the theme of solving murders? Violent death is larger than life and it's the great equalizer. By law, every victim is entitled to a paladin and a chase, else life would be cheapened.And the real reason I do this? My brain is simply bent this way. There is nothing else I would rather do. This neatly chains into my theory of the writing life. If you scratch an artist, under the skin you will find a bum who cannot hold down a real job. Conversely, if you scratch a bum... but I have never done that.The heart of my theory has puritan roots: if you love what you do, you cannot call it honest work. "

88 " Stephen King have a lot of books about the writing not only " The Writting: Memoir and Craft" , but and " Nightmares and Dreamscapes" , however " Misery" , also and " Bag of Bones" and even and others. Which is awesome, different perspectives for being a an writer. "

89 " Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: " Wilson or Brady?" The writing is on the ball... "

90 " What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on digital writing in the writing workshop that much more compelling? "

91 " Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are made in the locked subconscious, decisions not just on the writing but on the conditions for writing: I resolve on the one story I've never told and lo! Here I sit, holed up in a house that means nothing to me, bone-certain no other places will do. Art, even the humble autobiographer's, invokes occult necessities. "

― Glen Duncan , The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf #1)

92 " It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write! "

― Yael Shahar , Returning: Reflections & Resources on Teshuvah

93 " Writing a novel is a bit like being Daniel Boone. An author stands atop a ridge in a mountain range and can generally see a number of peaks in the distance. What lies between those peaks—the dales and glens, rivers, forests, and other features that distinguish one mountain landscape from another... is where the artistry and intrigue of the writing process lives. As the writer sets out into the story, leaving behind those high points—the beginning, a twist here and there, the climax, and, if perhaps a bit indistinct for the distance to cover, the end—entering the vale below, all manner of things can happen the writer never intended or expected at the onset. "

94 " I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them. "

― Darynda Jones

95 " You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process. "

96 " What one gains in technique can lead to deforestation in the writing that is both good and bad. Keep the energy and the willingness to proceed stupidly. "

97 " It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball. the best way to put it is that I have no particular method or technique per se, other than this: I plan nothing, I outline nothing, I start with an idea or an image or a line of dialogue and see where it leads me. Because I never know what the next page will contain, let alone the end of the book, I am perpetually surprised by the course that my characters take. The writing process is as full of surprises and twists for me as the reading experience is for my readers. I love the spontaneity of writing this way, the possibilities left open, the feeling that I am not constrained or committed to any given path. Every day, I am surprised by something. It may not be the most efficient way of writing, but it has served me well thus far. "

― Khaled Hosseini

98 " Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?" " Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow. "

99 " They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. "

― Charles Dickens , A Christmas Carol

100 " Sometimes the writing just comes and we're like, oh yeah. Gotta love when that happens. "

― Buffy Andrews

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