If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become part of someone else’s story.
– Terry Pratchett
Your Life… Your Story
Tag: Writing
Wishful thinking
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
—Neil Gaiman
Writer’s Block…
…when your imaginary friend refuses to talk to you.
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
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