Quotes about The writing

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If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Love your haters — they’re the ones who are really paying attention to you.
Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me — it’s effortless and much more fun.
I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indi — W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reve — Richard Scarsbrook, Rockets Versus Gravity
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon — Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprent — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on. — Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
Being the Novelist-in-Residence at a riad hotel in the kasbah of an Arabic North African city is a lot like trying to wr — Roman Payne
The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race. — William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than — William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Don't annoy your readers by over-explaining--by telling them something they already know or can figure out. Try not to u — William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially — William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dr — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ign — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades. — Annie Dillard
I will no longer argue with the senseless and unreasonable — for they are void of reason and common sense.
Stephen King have a lot of books about the writing not only "The Writting: Memoir and Craft", but and "Nightmares and Dr — Deyth Banger