Writing
quotes and inspiration on writing
Writing
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - Stephen King
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
—Terry Pratchett
"Here is the stuff of originality. For it is in the totality of experience reckoned with, filed, and forgotten, that each man is truly different from all others in the world." - Ray Bradbury
"Because novels come from long-marinated and unregarded anxiety, from silent anxiety…" - Martin Amis
"Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness." - Ray Bradbury
"Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation." - Ray Bradbury
Zen in the Art of Writing
"By living well, by observing as you live, by reading well and observing as you read, you have fed Your Most Original Self. " - Ray Bradbury
"Oh, and when I asked my listeners how many of them had ever thought about being a writer? What proportion raised their hands? At least two-thirds. Making me suspect, for the first time ever, that the urge to write is almost universal. As it would be, wouldn’t it, don’t you think? How else can you begin to come to terms with the fact of your existe... See more
"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury