Writing
quotes and inspiration on writing
Writing
The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable... See more
Epiphanies Come From Waiting
"writing fiction in America as we enter the twenty-first century is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different." - Stephen King
"“When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.”" - Stephen King
On Writing
"Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury
“The temptation to save something for a future piece is a signal to use it now”
- paraphrasing Annie Dillard
"Mostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts." - Stephen King
"I circled around summer noons and October midnights, sensing that there somewhere in the bright and dark seasons must be something that was really me." - Ray Bradbury
"When did you last read a book of poetry or take time, of an afternoon, for an essay or two?" - Ray Bradbury
To Read: Aldous Huxley’s “The Education of an Amphibian”