Quotations

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. Eudora Welty

“Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.” – E.L. Konigsburg

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

Write it down, when I have perished: Here is everything I’ve cherished; That these walls should glow with beauty Spurred my lagging soul to duty; That there should be gladness here Kept me toiling, year by year… Every thought and every act Were to keep this home intact. -Edgar A. Guest

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale. I don’t often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating [...]

From the Boing Boing forum on Flickr come these photography quotations picked by forum readers: “Photography…it’s the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody with a point-and-shoot camera can take a competent picture. But it’s the hardest medium in which to have, to express, some kind of personal vision. Because there is no touch, [...]

The brain enjoys writing. It enjoys the act of naming things, the process of association and discernment. Picking words is like picking apples: this one looks delicious. Writing – and this is a big secret – wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your [...]

“The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it [...]

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. — Dorothy Parker