Writing

To Read: Dorothea Brande’s Becoming A Writer

"Still, I believe the first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season." - Stephen King

"The ideas will follow me. When they’re off-guard, and ready to be born, I’ll turn around and grab them." - Ray Bradbury

"What a story is “about” is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring." - George Saunders

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - 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

"The other me Demands emergence constantly." - Ray Bradbury

"Oh, and when I asked my listeners how many of them had ever thought about being a writer? What proportion raised their hands? At least two-thirds. Making me suspect, for the first time ever, that the urge to write is almost universal. As it would be, wouldn’t it, don’t you think? How else can you begin to come to terms with the fact of your existe... 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