Writing
quotes and inspiration on writing
Writing
"All coherent intellectual work begins with a genuine reaction. " - George Saunders
A Swim in the Pond in the Raid
"‘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
Inside Story: A Novel
"Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation." - Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing
"The situation comes first. The characters—always flat and unfeatured, to begin with—come next." - Stephen King
"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
"Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury
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
"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
To Read: Aldous Huxley’s “The Education of an Amphibian”