Writers on Writing


If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Stephen King

All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
Neil Gaiman

Hideously, these were all stolen from Gala Darling’s inspiration blog hell. Not her words though, and nor are they mine.

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