Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck
Ideas are like rabbits…
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
The swirl and swing of words
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
—James Michener
No two readers…
No two readers ever read the same book.
— Edmund Wilson
Your Life… Your Story
If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone else’s story.
– Terry Pratchett
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
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
Hold Fast to Dreams
Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
– Langston Hughes
Maugham on Writing
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
—W. Somerset Maugham
Maugham’s Secret Rules
