#writing

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs. ↗

— Nate Ruess

#i #known #other #songs #than

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#comments #happens #hard #i #influence

The gotta, as in: “I think I’ll stay up another fifteen-twenty minutes, honey, I gotta see how this chapter comes out.” Even though the guy who says it spent the day at work thinking about getting laid and knows the odds are good his wife is going to be asleep when he finally gets up to the bedroom. The gotta, as in: “I know I should be starting supper now — he’ll be mad if it’s TV dinners again — but I gotta see how this ends.” I gotta know will she live. I gotta know will he catch the shitheel who killed his father. I gotta know if she finds out her best friend’s screwing her husband. The gotta. Nasty as a hand-job in a sleazy bar, fine as a fuck from the world’s most talented call-girl. Oh boy it was bad and oh boy it was good and oh boy in the end it didn’t matter how rude it was or how crude it was because in the end it was just like the Jacksons said on that record — don’t stop til you get enough. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #writing-process #inspirational

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it. ↗

— Chinua Achebe.

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. ↗

— Barbara Abercrombie

#writing-life #inspirational

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning. ↗

— Peter James West

#inspirational #writing #writing-life #inspirational

Changing imagination into fiction is what I love to do. ↗

— Eveli Acosta

#indie-author #indie-writing #writers #writers-life #writers-on-writing

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. ↗

— Greg Egan

#employers #gap #i #likely #long

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#been #done #first #i #kind

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#courses #creative #creative writing #english #english major