“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ” ~Lloyd Alexander
Writers’ Wisdom: Born to Write
“Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.” ~ Steven Pressfield
Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Story to Write
“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”
― Paolo Coelho
Writer’s Wisdom: Writing With Passion
Write as if your words were a fire bringing warmth to a freezing cold room. Waste no words, just provide heat. ~ Sir Tim Smit
Writer’s Wisdom: Dialogue
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start. ~ P. G. Wodehouse
Writer’s Wisdom: Neil Gaiman’s 5th of 8 Writing Tips
Tip #5: Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong. ~ Neil Gaiman
Writer’s Wisdom: Saul Below on Inspiration
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” ~ Saul Bellow
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Colette on Writing
To write, to be able to write, what does it mean? It means spending long hours dreaming before a white page, scribbling unconsciously, letting your pen play around a blot of ink and nibble at a half-formed word, scratching it, making it bristle with darts, and adorning it with antennae and paws until it loses all resemblance to a legible word and turns into a fantastic insect or a fluttering creature half butterfly, half fairy. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Jane Hirshfield on Good Poems
Every good poem begins in language awake to its own connections — language that hears itself and what is around it, sees itself and what is around it, looks back at those who look into its gaze and knows more perhaps even than we do about who are, what we are. ~ Jane Hirshfield