Writing
quotes and inspiration on writing
Writing
"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury
“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now”
- paraphrasing Annie Dillard
"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. Keeping a notebook keeps alive some illusion of who we used to be, allowing us to maintain continuity with a self we’ve already outgrown.”
-Joan Didion (from “On Keeping a
... See more"The most important is that the writer’s original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader’s. Running a close second was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it’s hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes... See more
"Here is the stuff of originality. For it is in the totality of experience reckoned with, filed, and forgotten, that each man is truly different from all others in the world." - Ray Bradbury
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
To Read: Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer
To Read: Aldous Huxley’s “The Education of an Amphibian”