Michael Morpugo: By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Andrew Motion: Let your work stand before deciding whether or not to serve.
Andrew Motion: Let your work stand before deciding whether or not to serve.
Joyce Carol Oates: Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.
Will Self: You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you.
Colm Tóibín: No going to London.
Rose Tremain: Forget the boring old dictum "write about what you know". Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
Sarah Waters: Writing fiction is not "self-expression" or "therapy". Novels are for readers, and writing them means the crafty, patient, selfless construction of effects.
James Joyce: Write it damn you, what else are you good for?
And finally, from Shakespeare's Top Ten Rules O' Writing: If ye suffer from block, have your mistress take up the quill while you cane opium and give her daughter goodly tup. If ye be nabbed, claim research.
5 comments:
Well okay then. Definitely some interesting quotes there.
That Shakespeare. Always with his mind in the gutter.
These were fun. I especially liked Shakespeare cuz he's such a rude, gutter-minded writer sometimes. But funny.
Always claim research for whatever you do, for you are a writer and writers are always thinking of their current or next piece. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I remember having moments of great sadness and tears rolling down my face and thinking to myself "I must remember this so I can use it in my writing."
Billy Shakespeare ... *shakes head*
You gotta read the whole "Shakespeare" article, it's qite funny.
2. Makest thou heroine a maiden as young as is strictly legal.
7. Ne’er miss a chance for identity mistook, for such wrangling be good for fifty page or more. If they be cross-dressers, ye’ll get a whole tale.
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