If you’re a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
– Tim Maleeny
Tag: people
Quotable 491
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
– Mary Oliver
Quotable 485
Introverts are good writers because they’ve been refining their inner dialogue their whole lives and have imaginary conversations with people on a daily basis.
– Alexander Pennington
Quotable 476
I think one must trust the writing process. Understand that creativity requires nonlinearity and unique associative combinations. Creative people do a lot of trial and error and rarely know where they are going exactly until they get there.
– Scott Barry Kaufman
Quotable 461
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.
– Flannery O’Connor
Quotable 447
There’s a saying in all writers’ rooms – it’s either fear or faith. You’re either trying to satisfy your guess about other people’s expectations, or you’re working through the genuine and authentic possibilities of the material.
– David Milch
Quotable 440
I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.
– Ishmael Reed
Quotable 438
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
– Jackie Collins
Quotable 432
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years.
– August Strindberg
Quotable 417
Being a writer isn’t some grand, mystical state of being, it just means you put words together to amuse people, most of all yourself.
– John Scalzi