So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words. Virginia Woolf
Inspiration comes from your writing. Thoughts meander subliminally through our subconscious, at night when we sleep the brain is working. In the act of writing, phrases come out and you think: wow, did I write this? Did I have that insight? Sometimes you know something...
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Chloe Thurlow
Writing doesn’t get any easier with time or talent. If writing is easy for you, you’re probably still learning the craft. You haven’t perfected your style or landed upon your “voice.” You haven’t learned to analyze your writing with a critical eye, to rip it...
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Darynda Jones
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
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Ernest Hemingway
I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.
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Chigozie Obioma
And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds...
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Anthony Doerr
More Quotes By Virginia Woolf
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>So I am doing what seems the...
What does the brain matter compared with the heart?
