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  • People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

    Ideas   People   Creative  
  • The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

    Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books
  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

    Life   Beautiful   Book  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin
  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013
  • What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.

    "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
  • There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.233, Harvard University Press
  • A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

    Writing   Pieces   Paper  
  • The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

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  • The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  • all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.

  • I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

    "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.
  • Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

    FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Sep 26, 2012
  • I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.

  • Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

    Life   Beauty   Beautiful  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

    1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.
  • Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

    Creative   Finals   Looks  
  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.
  • No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.

  • The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  • The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.

  • Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

    Inspiring   Writing   May  
    "A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner".
  • A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

    Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press
  • A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

    Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.9, Dell
  • Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

  • You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

    "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.
  • Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

  • So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

  • There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013
  • Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

  • Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

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