writers-on-writing

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors._

When we sit down to write, we psychically enter a sanctuary. This safe haven is our own personal space where we can say whatever is on our mind, where we can talk about what matters most to us, where we can imagine the kind of world that we would like to live.

Folding the laundry, completing another project at work, or watching television for the next hour doesn__ build your writing muscles. It only leaves them flabby.

Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

The muse is fickle; ergo, when she knocks, ANSWER! It may take a while, but trust me, she WILL knock. In the meantime, keep your ear pressed firmly to the door.

..here's the editor's prescription, writer: 1000 words daily until next checkup.

Passionate attraction to someone of the opposite sex will make a hero or a fool of a novelist each time.

Don__ know where to begin writing? Just throw up on paper.

Every word I write is another stroke that takes me to the shore of a completed book.

When I reach for my pen, nothing is out of reach.

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

I have a great book. It__ called Stantasyland. Except I don__ have the money to buy a million copies to put it on the bestsellers list.

...so I think writers are made and not born. But what you choose to write is buried so deeply inside it's like lodestones inside you and sooner or later you come near something that you're supposed to be doing with your life and it's like a magnet. It attracts.

I don__ see big subjects as separate from little ones. Yes, you could trudge through life with great human tragedies played out before your eyes without ever taking notice. Or you could see a universe in the smallest thing. The way a person takes their coffee, for example, might say something profound and important about that person, about all humanity, about existence itself.

To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasure of the senses with STRONG VERBS.

I believe almost every author have gone through the terribly uncomfortable period between the time of shedding the seeds of a story and waiting to see it flourish as a published book, spending hours watering and fertilizing it. This is a dreadful period, frustrating and depressing.