Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024
Monday, April 11, 2022
Olin Miller, on writing:
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
- Olin Miller.
Friday, November 5, 2021
Friday, October 1, 2021
C. S. Lewis, on writing:
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing:
ink is the great cure for all human ills,
as I have found out long ago.
- C. S. Lewis.
Friday, April 2, 2021
Rainer Maria Rilke, on writing:
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of you heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
- Rainer Maria Rilke.
Friday, February 5, 2021
Mordecai Richler, on writing:
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
- Mordecai Richler.
Friday, January 1, 2021
Mary Lee Settle, on writing:
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool.
The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
- Mary Lee Settle.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Friday, August 7, 2020
Charles Bukowski, on writers:
Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.
Writers?
Writers starved.
Writers suicided.
Writers went mad.
- Charles Bukowski.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Friday, June 5, 2020
Friday, May 1, 2020
Friday, February 7, 2020
Jane Yolen, on writing:
Exercise the writing muscles every day, even if it is only a letter, note, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry.
Writers are like dancers, like athletes.
Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
- Jane Yolen.
Friday, December 20, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
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