#writing

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

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Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way. ↗

— Jessica Soffer

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To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ↗

— Michael Palin

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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton. ↗

— Don Roff

#inspirational #writing #humor

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page. ↗

— Roman Payne

#artists #artists-life #coffee #creation #creativity

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#on-writing #inspirational

Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. ↗

— Jincy Willett

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