In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
– Albert Einstein
Creativity
Franklin’s Rules
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
—Benjamin Franklin
Capote’s Rules
I think most writers, even the best, overwrite. I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.
—Truman Capote
Hemingway’s Rules
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
—Ernest Hemingway
Courage
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
—Arthur Miller
An Artist’s fear…
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg
Alternate Facts…
Get your facts first then you may distort them as you please.
—Mark Twain
Suspicious…
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
—Alfred Hitchcock
We all need it…
Humor is the universal solvent against the abrasive elements of life.
– Senator Alan Simpson
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
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