There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas, of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence – an overwhelming determination to succeed.
– Sophy Burnham
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I don’t care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you’re also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
– Nora Ephron
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
– Rita Mae Brown
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
– Joseph Heller
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
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
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Pique the reader’s curiosity, then gratify it.
– Matthew White
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
You can revise crap. You can’t revise nothing. Now get in there and write some crap!
– Saundra Mitchell
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