I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
—James Michener
The swirl and swing of words
Tag: Writing
Poisoned by emotion…
I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice—they all make fine fuel.
—Edna Ferber
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
Writer’s Block…
…when your imaginary friend refuses to talk to you.
A Writer’s Power
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
—Sinclair Lewis
Suspicious…
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
—Alfred Hitchcock
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
And then Satan said…
And then Satan said, “Make them write a synopsis.”
…if you’ve ever self-published a book, you know what this means. Thank you, Elisabeth Wheatley.
First Draft
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
– Terry Pratchett
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.
—John Steinbeck
Description
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
—Stephen King
