May 22nd, 2013 at 4:30PM
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning. — Dorothy Allison (via writingquotes)
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May 21st, 2013 at 4:30PM
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard. — David McCullough (via writingquotes)
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May 18th, 2013 at 6:01PM
Stay loose and flexible, and keep your expectations very low. — Chris Baty (via writingquotes)
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May 18th, 2013 at 3:01PM
Your story might be firing on one cylinder, when really, it needs to fire on three: the goals of the protagonist and the conflicts that work against him must cross three axes: physical, emotional, philosophical.
Physical: “I am in danger of being eaten alive by a starving were-badger.”
Emotional: “But the starving were-badger is my true love, Betty McGoohan.”
Philosophical: “If I cannot reconcile this and the story demands I slay my true love, then love cannot succeed in the face of evil and I am forced to accede to a cynical worldview in which monstrousness is ascendant and all my victories are Pyrrhic and were-badgers are neither cuddly nor sexy.”
Harness all three axes for powerful story-combo power-up extra-life ding. — Chuck Wendig (via writingquotes)
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May 17th, 2013 at 4:31PM
Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits. — Dave Eggers (via writingquotes)
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May 15th, 2013 at 6:30PM
Write while the heat is in you. — Henry David Thoreau (via writingquotes)
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May 15th, 2013 at 4:30PM
A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch. — W. Somerset Maugham (via writingquotes)
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May 14th, 2013 at 6:01PM
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. — Charles Peguy (via writingquotes)
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May 14th, 2013 at 4:01PM
Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn’t know they knew. — Ursula K. Le Guin (via writingquotes)
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May 11th, 2013 at 5:01PM
I never make [my books]: they grow; they come to me and insist on being written. — Samuel Butler (via writingquotes)
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