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
Category: Quotable
Quotable 475
[Writers block] isn’t a physical thing – it isn’t a gorilla with a croquet mallet who smashes your hand every time you reach for the keyboard. You can get past it. You think past it. You write past it.
– Chuck Wendig
Quotable 474
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 473
Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
– Carlos Fuentes
Quotable 472
You don’t become a novelist to become a spinner of entertaining lies: you become a novelist so you can tell the truth.
– Hilary Mantel
Quotable 471
Boredom is the enemy of story.
– Chuck Wendig
Quotable 470
Begin your story with a voice.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 469
One of the first things I tell my classes is, “If you want to write, keep a low overhead.”
– Grace Paley
Quotable 468
I have great fears. I’m terrified of guns. I’m terrified of heights, so I write about bridge-builders and gunfighters.
– Michael Ondaatje
Quotable 467
The idea is to avoid monotony.
– Lester Dent