“What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.” IfsWritingSometimesEyeAbleHateWaitingSticksConvincedPencils Author:Ron Rash
“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
“I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.” WritingHelpingNightSilenceMorningDoorsLateSticksPhonesDawnAwakeLunchVacation Author:Mona Simpson
“You have to stick to what you love, as writing is such a lonely and depressing existence... stick to what you love and someone will hear your voice.” WritingVoiceExistenceLonelySticksDepressingWhat You Love Author:Chris Terrio
“We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.” ThinkingWritingTryingStuffWorryToo MuchSticksShipsProportionEditorsEnvelopes Author:Garrison Keillor
“It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.” IfsWayWritingJobsHoursSucceedApproachModelsDown AndSticksEach DayAirplaneHobbiesSchedulesBabysitter Author:Rosellen Brown
“That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.” WritingMightHappensSongTwentiesSticksThirtyFortySignificanceChurning Author:Mick Ralphs
“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.” GivingWritingFirstsInspirationLinesSticksRidingBulls Author:Bob Dylan
“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.” NeedsWritingArtFilmFormPiecesRocksPaintingPaperPicksSticksPensPencilsSculptureChalk Author:Forest Whitaker
“The Old and New Testaments are the stick of Judah. You recollect that the tribe of Judah tarried in Jerusalem and the Lord blessed Judah, and the result was the writings of the Old and New Testaments. But where is the stick of Joseph? Can you tell where it is? Yes. It was the children of Joseph who came across the waters to this continent, and this land was filled with people, and the Book of Mormon or the stick of Joseph contains their writings, and they are in the hands of Ephraim” PeopleWritingChildrenBookHandsWaterResultsLordLandBlessedFilledSticksContinentsTribesTestamentNew TestamentJerusalemOld And NewJudah Book:The Essential Brigham Young Source: The Essential Brigham Young
“My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.” IfsKnowsShouldWritingWellsLongBookRealizingWrittenTheoryReaderLet MeSticksHopefullyEntertaining Author:Charles de Lint