I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
– Ernest Hemingway
The Well
Category: Writing
Nothing to it…
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
– Ernest Hemingway
An Artist’s fear…
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg
There’s always room…
There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
– J. K. Rowling
Who’s on first? Truman Capote on Writing
I always write the end of everything first. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going, is my theory.
—Truman Capote
Intuition
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
— Ray Bradbury
Really Seeing…
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
—Orson Welles
Ideas are like rabbits…
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck
Like driving a car…
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
—E. L. Doctorow
Creativity
Creativity is an act of defiance
– Twyla Tharp
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