Inspiration is the great con of art. You want inspiration? Work harder the day before so you know where to start today.
– Richard Kadrey
Category: Quotable
Quotable 165
Storytelling trumps beautiful writing every time.
– Lisa Cron
Quotable 164
I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don’t know anything beyond it. I follow it.
– David Rabe
Quotable 163
Few humans can resist a good story. Stories are rooted in a multitude of personal experiences. A good story invites listeners to compare and contrast their own experience with that of the characters in the story.
– Bryan West
Quotable 162
Plot exists so the character can discover what he is really like, forcing the character to choice and action.
– John Gardner
Quotable 161
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
– Philip Jose Farmer
Quotable 160
Don’t expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.
– Leslie Gordon Barnard
Quotable 159
All of the writers you love are writing bad first drafts. That’s how we come to find our characters and voices and truth.
– Anne Lamott
Quotable 158
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
– Lorrie Moore
Quotable 157
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
– Jacques Barzun