“I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts.” ~ Quentin Tarantino
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Are You Cooking Your Story?
“In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.” ~ Doris Lessing
Do You Write Poetry? Keep on Writing!
“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.
~ Seamus Heaney
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Why Do We Write?
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.” ~ Ted Hughes
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking for a Character for Your Story?
“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.”
~ Elizabeth Bowen
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Traits of a Writer
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Simple Recipe to Write a Novel
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking For Inspiration for a Storyline?
“In fact, I think every book I’ve written has been inspired by a real event.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Starting Place for a Story
“I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.”
~ Donald E. Westlake
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Who Are You Writing to Please?
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
