Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motivation. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 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
Friday, October 25, 2019
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