This sums it up for me: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” —George Orwell
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.” —Ernest Hemingway
I'm not sure if he is a great writer but a quote from 'The Highest' Buddhist Wisdom 'when you become enlightened, when your good deeds overcome bad, you will illuminate the world as the moon does when it breaks free from the clouds'
There is a lot of pages to go through hear, so not sure if someone else has said it but Hunter S Thompson is one of my favourite writers. And I initially thought the writers quotes was quotes from his books as I was going to post one from fear and loathing about a watermark where the wave broke. But as it is about writers on writing heres one from HST “As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.”
"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it." Ann Patchett Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/writing.html
"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere." - Anne Lamott "Don't worry. You'll figure it out - you always do. Just keep writing." - Don't know who said this but I have it posted over my desk, along with the quote from Anne Lamott.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson
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"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before." - Kurt Vonnegut
Another way to put this is: Normal is a word that people use to make you act just like they do. I like this one: “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
I may have posted one of these quotes somewhere else on WF, but I have been informed that the www is a big place. So here goes : "I'll personally bull whip the first bastard who makes fun of human hopelessness." Jack Kerouac "Being human is a useless passion." Jean-Paul Satre "Live existentially asshole." Me, upon waking up suddenly after a horrific nightmare one morning at 23. So ok, I will admit that quotes about the human condition always make me tremble and stop in my tracks when I get all caught up (i.e. lose myself) in a generally mindless regular dumb ass routine. Long live stopping in your tracks.
'In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' - George Orwell Strikes a particular resonance in these turbulent political times, I think.
Some Brandon Sanderson Quotes: "Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference." -Brandon Sanderson "By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry..." Brandon Sanderson
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. Paulo Coelho Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Rumi
Appropriate for our time: "In war, the truth is so precious that it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill Good to remember if you're writing about armed conflicts.