#write

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.


Ray Bradbury


#quality #skill #writers #writing #imagination

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.


Jim Butcher


#characters #ideas #imagination #readers #writers

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)


Charles Dickens


#fulfillment #inspirational #last-words #natural #rules

The words that come out of your imagination are your own - just be sure they are.


Rusty Blackwood


#imagination

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.


Joan D. Vinge


#beyond #both #climb #compelled #enjoy

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible


Roger Rosenblatt


#inspiration-for-writers #writing-instruction #art

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.


Margaret Atwood


#author #relevance #writer #age

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.


Washington Irving


#the-mutability-of-literature #writers #writing #inspirational

In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn’t fill him with the same enthusiasm


Gustave Flaubert


#writing #inspirational

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.


Terry Lander


#inspiration #writers #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational