[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
Tag: thing
Quotable 469
One of the first things I tell my classes is, “If you want to write, keep a low overhead.”
– Grace Paley
Quotable 429
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what its about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising … and it’s magic and wonderful and strange.
– Neil Gaiman
Quotable 421
The continually reassuring thing is that we’re all novices when we start a new work.
– Alice McDermott
Quotable 416
You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
– Anne Lindbergh
Quotable 406
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
– Charles Bukowski
Quotable 396
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
– John Steinbeck
haiku 503
blue moon –
same things
keep happening
Quotable 382
Poetry gives voice to the things we cannot describe. And it gives meaning to that which we cannot explain.
– Guy Stagg