thoughts on writing
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
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The point is, writing well, even an ordinary letter or a well-considered e-mail, demands the generosity of your time, effort, and thought. You have to care enough that it’s worth your energy, weighing that cost against the cost of not doing it.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
My only ritual for writing is that I do it every morning. I wake up and get to work.
Walter Mosley • This Year You Write Your Novel
“Writing is often the process by which you realize you do not understand what you are talking about.”
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One-thousand or two-thousand words every day for the next twenty years. At the start, you might shoot for one short story a week, fifty-two stories a year, for five years. You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the necessary work done.
Ray Bradbury • Zen in the Art of Writing
Writing is not about getting letters on a page. It’s not about getting done with text. It’s finding a clear and simple expression for what we feel, mean, and want to express
“The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people.” Joyce Carol Oates
