I now think of writing as a privilege – as a gift that’s been given to me. Any day that I don’t get to write something – anything – is a day I have to spend being someone other than who I am.
– Larry Gelbart
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Quotable 86
If you do creative work, there’s a sense that inspiration is this fairy dust that gets dropped on you, when in fact you can just manufacture inspiration through sheer brute force. You can simply produce enough material that the thing will arrive that seems inspired.
– Ira Glass
Quotable 85
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Quotable 84
Pique the reader’s curiosity, then gratify it.
– Matthew White
Quotable 83
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
– Vaclav Havel
Quotable 82
You can revise crap. You can’t revise nothing. Now get in there and write some crap!
– Saundra Mitchell
Quotable 81
Let us withdraw from the cold and barren world of prosaic fact if only for a season; that we may warm ourselves by the fireside of fancy, and take counsel of the wisdom of poetry and legend.
– David Rhys Williams
Quotable 80
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.
– Daniel Pinkwater
Quotable 79
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don’t get all writerly: “He opened the door.” There, it’s open.
– Amy Hempel
Quotable 78
A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
