Character is built in the course of your
inner confrontation. Character is a set of
dispositions, desires, and habits that are
slowly engraved during the struggle
against your own weakness.
~ David Brooks
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
~ Sylvia Plath
Tom Buckley: It's never for anything.
Why do you think that people like films?
It's because stories are structured;
have a shape, a purpose, a meaning;
and when things gone bad
they're still a part of a plan;
there's a point to them. Unlike life.
~ Their Finest, 2016
You can, you should
and if you’re brave enough to start,
you will
~ Stephen King
Failure teaches you more than success.
~ Russian Proverb
There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
~ William Shakespeare
Sicario takes what would have been
a great emotionally complex female protagonist
and undermines her via repeated victimization and abuse.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
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Nothing is as real as a dream.
The world can change around you, but your dream will not.
Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
~ Tom Clancy
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When asked, "How do you write?"
I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
~ Stephen King
| The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words. ~ George Eliot |
| Go down roads hat don't lead anywhere immediately. ~ Malcolm Gladwell |
| Use familiar words-words that your reader will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away. ~ James J. Kilpatrick |
| Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot. ~ Leigh Brackett |
| A critic’s job is to find the cracks, not fill the holes. Then I am told no piece of writing is without their holes. ~ Paul Ruggeri |
| In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willl power or inspiration. ~ John Steinbeck |
| Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. ~ Tom Clancy |
You should write because you love the shape of stories
and sentences and the creation of different words on a page.
Writing comes from reading,
and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
~Annie Proulx
| You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired—it’s hard work. ~ Tom Clancy |
| You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist. ~ Isaac Asimov |
| No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves... ~ George R.R. Martin [when asked if any of the cast of his book series, "A Song of Ice and Fire", will be left alive.] |
| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ~ Pablo Picasso |
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
~ Voltaire
| While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it. ~ Joseph Heller |
| You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. ~ G. K. Chesterton |
And the trouble is,if you don't risk
anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong
| Having imagination, it take you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. ~ Franklin P. Adams |
| The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. ~ Franklin P. Adams |
All good books are alike in that they
are truer than if they had really happened.
~ Ernest Hemingway
| A writer is someboy for who writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ~ Thomas Mann |
| Writing came easy--it would only get hard when I got better at it. ~ Gary Wills |
By the time a writer discovers he has no talent
for literature, he is too successful to give it up.
~ George S. Kaufman
| The only impeccable writers are those that never wrote. ~ William Hazlitt |
| Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain |
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages
each of which is filled with words.
If you reach that point, you have won a victory
over yourself no less impressive
than sailing single-handed around the world.
~ Tom Clancy
| There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ~ Anonymous |
Talent is cheaper than table salt.
What separates the talented individual
from the successful one
is a lot of hard work.
~ Stephen King
| There is no agony like having an untold story inside you. ~ Zora Neale Hurston |
| TV ... really is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs. If you feel you must have the news analyst blowhards on CNN while you exercise, or the stock market blowhards on MSNBC, or the sports blowhards on ESPN, it's time for you to question how serious you really are about becoming a writer. You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much. ~ Stephen King |
| Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein |
The beautiful part of writing is
that you don't have to get it right
the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery.
~ Robert Cormier
| Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. ~ Calvin Coolidge |
| You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job. ~ Nora Roberts |
Create a character who is both proactive
and sympathetic, someone with a hole in her life,
but who is willing to risk all for her goal.
When readers care,
you can get away with almost anything.
~ Bonnie Hearn Hill
| If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too. ~ Tim Maleeny |
| “Books aren't written -- they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. ~ Michael Crichton |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison |
| The quickest, easiest way to produce something beautiful and lasting is to risk making something horribly crappy. ~ Chris Baty |
“The biggest thing separating people from
their artistic ambitions
is not a lack of talent.
It's the lack of a DEADLINE.
~ Chris Baty
| But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever. ~ Ron White |
| Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ~ Morihei Ueshiba |
The main rule of writing is that,
if you do it with enough assurance and confidence,
you're allowed to do whatever you like.
(That may be a rule for life as well as for writing.
But it's definitely true for writing.)
~ Neil Gaiman