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Quotes about Writing
Jul. 1st, 2009 11:07 amHere's another inspirational post. I thought this might help some of you during your time planning and writing for The Spark Inside.
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." - C. S. Lewis
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly
"There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed." - Sophy Burnham
"Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal." - Jeffrey A. Carver
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." - Winston Churchill
"Easy reading is damned hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Keep in mind that the person to write for is yourself. Tell the story that you most desperately want to read." - Susan Isaacs
"Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish." - Monica Dickens
"There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world." - John Fowles
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." - C. S. Lewis
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly
"There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed." - Sophy Burnham
"Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal." - Jeffrey A. Carver
"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." - Winston Churchill
"Easy reading is damned hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Keep in mind that the person to write for is yourself. Tell the story that you most desperately want to read." - Susan Isaacs
"Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish." - Monica Dickens
"There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world." - John Fowles
