Writer’s Block…
Tag: Writing
Value…
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which doesn’t make a profit is without value.
– Arthur Miller
Why Write?
You write in order to change the world. If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
—James Baldwin
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
An Artist’s fear…
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
—Natalie Goldberg
Suspicious…
I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
Writers can be pretty intense.
It’s the kind of thing that can happen when you spend too much time bottled up inside your own head.
