I’m not an extraordinary worker, I’m an extraordinary daydreamer.
– Blaise Cendrars
Tag: not
Quotable 479
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
– Stephen King
Quotable 473
Don’t classify me, read me. I’m a writer, not a genre.
– Carlos Fuentes
Quotable 456
Repeat the mantra: Writing is when I make the words. Editing is when I make them not shitty.
– Chuck Wendig
Quotable 455
Novels begin not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming, in thinking not writing.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Quotable 450
Dialogue has to create a life. It has to be self-sustaining. Conversation is definitely not dialogue.
– Sam Shepard
haiku 545
sunny day
not a cloud in the…
wait, there’s one
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
Quotable 407
Revising a story that you don’t believe in is like making out with somebody you’re not attracted to.
– Patrick Ryan
Quotable 394
One reason I think I don’t get blocked is that I’m not afraid to write bad, early drafts in order to get to the good.
– Deborah Reed