“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
“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
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ”
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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
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“The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.”
You’re a writer. Make it up.
“Writing isn’t a source of pain. It’s psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
~ Stephen King
“I don’t think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”
~ P. D. James
If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.