You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of twenty-two, but not after that. Then one ought to be giving one's mind to having fun without catching the pox, arranging one's life as comfortably as possible, having a few decent drawings on the wall, and above all writing well. That's the important thing: well-made sentences..and then a few metaphors. Yes, a few metaphors. They embellish a man's existence. Anonymous
Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows...
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Lili St. Crow
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
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Jonathan Franzen
Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you're going to give up and walk away. The great writers have to fight...
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Alessandra Torre
I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.
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Tiffany Madison
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.
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Stephen J. Cannell
