“Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs—no regular hours, so many temptations!”
Elizabeth Bishop (via sarahangelwrites)
“PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.”
Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary” (via sarahangelwrites)
“Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.”
Thomas Berger (via sarahangelwrites)
“You don’t write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via sarahangelwrites)
“Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. They’re going someplace.”
John Irving (via sarahangelwrites)
“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.”
Rod Serling (via sarahangelwrites)
“A story consists of someone wanting something and having trouble getting it.”
Douglas Glover “The Enamoured Knight” (via sarahangelwrites)
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
Lawrence Kasdan (via sarahangelwrites)
“Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself—it is the occurring which is difficult.”
Stephen Leacock (via sarahangelwrites)
“Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.”
Heather Sellers (via sarahangelwrites)
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