Source: Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
Creative Writers Quotes
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Creative Writers Quotes
“The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
Source: A Short History Of Myth
Source: The Mulberry Tree
“The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.”
Source: Not Under Forty
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Source: A Gift of Wings
“If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Source: Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
Source: The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters
“Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.”
“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”
“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”
“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
Source: Not Under Forty
Source: Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works
“You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838
“You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.”
“Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.”