“In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.” WritingRealEnergyLostWaste Author:Larry Brooks
“Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.” KnowsMenWantWritingWellsEnergyHellSticksAddict Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac
“If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.” IfsWorldWayGivingWritingLooksMotivationEnergyCreativeEndlessOne WayThievesAnother WayMojo Author:Julianna Baggott
“Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.” IfsWritingBelieveWellsUseMightEnergyOpinionIdentityPureEgoBelieve In YouWillpower Author:William Zinsser
“I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.” WritingEnergyNew YorkAbsenceYearningExcluded Author:Jonathan Lethem
“The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.” FeelsWritingYearsPersonsHas BeensLastsEnergyCoupleComing Back Author:Maggie Smith
“And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.” PeopleIfsWritingJoyActorsEnergySourcePagesDrawsHatredEtc Author:Timothy Findley
“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.” WritingPersonsCharacterFeelingsScienceFoundEnergyProcessDifferencesResultsEmotionalHumourDegreesPaperIntellectualBirdFairsMethodVariousAccurateInsignificantSuppliesOccultGeeseIngeniousThoughts And FeelingsFowlQuills Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.” WritingDoeLife IsLyingEnergyObjectsDrawsCellsInstantShockViewersBoldnessAnticipateExhibits Author:Jeanette Winterson
“So you're stuck. Every time your madman starts to write, your judge pounces on him... So start by promising your judge that you'll get around to asking his opinion, but not now. And then let the madman energy flow... Save details for the judge.” WritingEnergyOpinionJudgingFlowAskingDetailsStuckNow And ThenMadmenEnergy Flow Author:Betty Sue Flowers
“The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.” WritingTwoRealityRunningTurnsChoicesEnergyFictionMysteryProduceTiredFormerConquerReality Of LifeComplexityIntimidatingTwo Choices Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir