Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. James Lee Burke
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.
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Sylvia Plath
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Ray Bradbury
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
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Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But...
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Stephen King
More Quotes By James Lee Burke
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
