“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” InspirationalWritingFormEasyBloodPaperStaringBlankSheetsWriting AdviceWriting A BookForeheadsWriters And WritingFiction WritersBook WritingWriting By WritersStory WritersWriting WordsBlood FlowBlank PaperBlank Stares Author:Gene Fowler
“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.” WayWritingFirstsLooksStoriesHappensFictionStrangeMaterialsBeastObserversFiction Writers Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.” WritingKindTogetherLiteratureFictionFiguresFootballPlanetsConversationWineScience FictionSatHotelBottlesGet TogetherFiction WritersBalconiesBottles Of WineBlowing Up Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.” ThinkingWayNeedsWritingMayFictionMinesFiction Writers Author:Wally Lamb
“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.” FeelsWritingTryingLongCharacterAbleFictionTalkingCrazyLong TimeOkayParisInterviewsReviewsFiction WritersReally Long Author:Sloane Crosley