“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
~ Ernest Hemingway
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.”
~ Larry Niven
Everything that doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. And later on you can use it in some story. ~ Tapani Biagge
“Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.” ~ Toni Morrison
“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.”
~ Dan Poynter
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
~ Sylvia Plath
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
~ Anton Chekov
