writer's (un)block
Words are the tools we use to bring our ideas to life. Great strategies are useless if we can’t express and sell them to creatives and clients with pithy, evocative words that crackle with energy. In our experience, the best planners always choose ‘the best words in the best order’.
APG Ltd • How not to Plan: 66 ways to screw it up
The most important advantage of writing is that it helps us to confront ourselves when we do not understand something as well as we would like to believe.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Paragraphs are almost as important for how they look as for what they say; they are maps of intent.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all… as long as you tell the truth.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
to write is human, to edit is divine.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
Writing is refined thinking.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
We, as cultural workers, people who labor in paintbrushes, camera lenses, Photoshop, song, pen and paper, and other forms of artistic labor, have to see ourselves and our work as weapons in a war for liberation. Our task is heavy: to create a culture of revolution.