Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that — all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, this may mean you’ll never be published but that’s a risk we all take every single time we set hands to keyboard or pen to paper. For me, if I can sit back at the end of a project and say, ‘yes, I stayed honest, I said what I wanted to say, and I made it sing to the best of my ability’, then I’m happy enough. Of course, if anyone wants to buy the damned thing off me when I’m done, that’s jam I won’t refuse. . Celine Kiernan
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 Celine Kiernan
(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well - but it saddens me that it so...
It is as though the human race is always only waiting for permission to hate.
When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that — all those things are so far out of your control that you may as well not think about them. Of course, this may mean you’ll never be published but...
