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
Tag: think
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 411
I think of fiction as a kind of inquiry into what it is to be a human and what it is to be a human now.
– Deborah Eisenberg
Quotable 404
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
– George Orwell
Quotable 401
I think that being a novelist means you defend human values by writing novels.
– Alaa Al Aswany
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
Quotable 378
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
– David McCullough
Quotable 369
I think I’m an okay writer, but a very good storyteller.
– James Patterson
Quotable 338
I try as much as possible when writing not to think about my audience and write as good a story as I can.
– Justine Larbalestier
Quotable 317
Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work toward conciseness.
– Edouard Manet