If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.
-Anais Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.
-Anais Nin

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen King

There is nothing to writing.
All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days. Do not cave in to endless requests to have “essential” and “long overdue” meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood for something sometime in your life.
Sir Winston Churchill.

“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.” — Voltaire, French, writer, philosopher, historian
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain.

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
Mark Twain
