“For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.” IfsWorldWritingTryingYearsSaidBookDoneFeelingsNiceWrittenUltimatePaidForgottenGenerousBeing NiceThey SaidObligedRequestWork Done Author:Derek Sivers
“My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingSelfFeelingsBitsConsciousCriticizeLeapSelf ConsciousLeap Of Faith Author:Conor Oberst
“You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.” WayWritingIdeasFeelingsEyeFormVisuals Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.” IfsWritingFeelingsGamesDifficultEmotionBrainSadnessIgnoredTiptoes Author:Matthea Harvey
“Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.” PeopleGivingWritingFeelingsPassionVoiceFindingsResistanceOutrageMake Me HappyGiving Voice Author:Eve Ensler
“The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldWritingImportantFeelingsKnow HowBloodImportant ThingsIntimate Author:Joni Mitchell
“I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.” PeopleWritingHeartDoeFeelingsWaitingShareAchievementGloryLuxuryPoetry IsConfined Author:Stella Benson
“I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?” WorldWantWritingTwoCharacterFeelingsHouseCausesVoiceHurtSolitudePhotographyNow And ThenVisitorsHurt FeelingsTwo DaysGuarded Book:Portrait of Myself Source: Portrait of Myself
“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.” GivingWritingKindChildrenFeelingsRunningParentChanceRaceSituationNovelSubjectsAdultsMercyResponse Author:Nina Bawden
“There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMeanBookUseFeelingsLanguageDifficultHavensEasierSpeechDown AndListsConclusionLove Feeling Author:Jenny Diski
“All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.” NeedsWritingStoriesFeelingsFourWallFour Walls Author:Doris Betts
“I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to songs that had a brilliant pun or a clever turn of phrase, but came from a dark, bitter place. As a writer, I've always gravitated towards that feeling.” WayWritingCountryFeelingsKidsSongTurnsDarkInfluenceHugeBrilliantCleverBitterObsessedPhrasesPun Author:Teddy Thompson
“There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.” WritingArtFeelingsRealityValuesImpossibleCrossesEntertainmentSentencesFabricDisrespectTruth And Reality Author:Rachel Cusk
“I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.” FeelsShouldWritingKindFeelingsInterestingLibertyWorryFeel Good Author:Eve Ensler
“Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.” WayFeelsWritingLittlesPlayFeelingsStarsMapsPoetry Is Author:Aaron Belz
“If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.” IfsNeedsWritingMeanFeelingsAbleBunchBlockConnectingWriter's Block Author:Ellie Goulding
“It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.” WritingFeelingsGuySongMad Author:Avril Lavigne
“The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.” WritingBookCharacterStoriesFeelingsStrongDifficultVoiceFictionReaderFindingsResearchTasksSettingSettingsDevelopingPlotNon FictionWriting A BookStrong FeelingDifficult TasksDevising Author:Randy Pausch
“It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindChildrenI CanSometimesFeelingsReadingWatchesAudienceWonderfulAdventureMarvelousReactingChores Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder