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“Writing starts with living.Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.”
“Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one”
“I want to do something splendid Something heroic or wonderful that wont be forgotten after Im dead I think I shall write books.”
“Silently I dance a dance of chaos to the rhythm of a dying sun”
“To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for noth...”
“It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.”
“You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.”
“If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
“grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.”
“And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.”
“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.”
“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writers block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting time, but preparing myself to return to work. I blog more. I do something differ...”
“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose story plot continuity... Insof...”
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.”
“murder your darlings”
“As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.”
“Novel writing is like heroin addiction it takes everything you've got. ”
“I think it should be done over, Buddy. Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as bad and unnatural as dumping your adjectives and ...”
“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.”
