_"Quote's from WRITER..."
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
'Sleep on your writing: take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.'
-Amos Bronson Alcott
'The more a man writes, the more he can write.'
-William Hazlitt
'If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.'
'It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.'
-C J Cherryh
'If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.' Edgar -Rice Burroughs
'F*** this, I've had enough of writing. I don't like the book world. I don't like most books, even.
I don't like sitting on my own in a room for hours on end.'
-Alex Garland on writing your second novel (which took him nearly ten years)
'When you give someone a book you re giving them the most imaginative of gifts, because you're taking a personal interest in what interests them.'
-W H Smith ad in the Observer
'Fiction, imaginative work that is, is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.'
-Virginia Woolf
'If you have other things in your life - family, friends, good productive day work - then these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.'
-David Brin
'I can't start writing until I have a closing line.'
-Joseph Heller
'In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your reader to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.'
-Ben Bova
'I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote simply for money. What makes a writer is that he likes writing. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.'
-P G Wodehouse
'There is no such thing as moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
-Oscar Wilde
'And as to experience--well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.'
-Elizabeth Bishop
for me:
"a writer is comparable to a mirror ...
They reflect what you wrote..."
-luckymysteriousgirl (^_^)-