Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2022

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.

E.B. White, on writing:


I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.

- E.B. White.

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, 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, 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.

Ray Bradbury, on writing:


You fail only if you stop writing.

- Ray Bradbury.

Friday, December 20, 2019