Writing

"When did you last read a book of poetry or take time, of an afternoon, for an essay or two?" - Ray Bradbury

"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury

"‘Well it so happens that you of all people know almost exactly what it’s like – to be a writer. You’re in your early-middle teens. The age when you come into a new level of self-awareness. Or a new level of self-communion. It’s as if you hear a voice, which is you but doesn’t sound like you. Not quite – it isn’t what you’ve been used to, it sounds... See more

"If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that." - Stephen King

"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

"A well-fed man keeps and calmly gives forth his infinitesimal portion of eternity. It sounds big in the summer night. And it is, as it always was down the ages, when there was a man with something to tell, and ones, quiet and wise, to listen." - Ray Bradbury

"The situation comes first. The characters—always flat and unfeatured, to begin with—come next." - Stephen King

The physical world and the cognitive worlds become linked through metaphors.

"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis