Writing
quotes and inspiration on writing
Writing
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury
"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
"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
"Plots and hooks yield the same desideratum: they set the reader a question, with the implicit assurance that the question will be answered." - Martin Amis
"‘Rather, you are continuously summoned to solidarity,’ summoned not by any ‘external compulsion’ but ‘from within yourself’. You cannot do otherwise. And the same went for Saul: if it comes from within yourself, then you cannot do otherwise. No novelist can." - Martin Amis
"The other me Demands emergence constantly." - Ray Bradbury
"You are, in effect, dropping stones down a well. Every time you hear an echo from your Subconscious, you know yourself a little better. A small echo may start an idea. A big echo may result in a story." - Ray Bradbury