– Donald Harrington (via writersrelief)
"If you are destined to become a writer, you can’t help it. If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn’t have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing."
"There’s a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called ‘fan fiction.’"
– Joss Whedon (via writersrelief)
"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word."
– Julio Cortázar (via writersrelief)
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"Drop a stone in the still pool of your character’s life and watch the ripples."
– Jeff Gerke (via writersrelief)
"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic, and fear which is inherent in a human situation"
– Graham Greene (via writersrelief)
"As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It’s a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly."
– Paul Rudnik (via writersrelief)
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"In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people’s lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time."
– Marge Piercy (via writersrelief)
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"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."
– Helen Dunmore (via writersrelief)
