Scattered Mind Musings: 2055-08-15

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..| | |..Musings of a Scattered Mind. I don't need drugs to be insane...I write..| | |..

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ” ― Joss Whedon

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.” ― Ernest Hemingway

“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions,
thus: 1. What am I trying to say?
2. What words will express it?
3. What image or idiom will make it clearer?
4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?” ― George Orwell

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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” ― Winston Churchill

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” ― Stephen King

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.” ― Virginia Woolf

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

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

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ― Ray Bradbury

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ― Stephen King

“You can make anything by writing.” ― C.S. Lewis

“A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.” ― Stephen King, Skeleton Crew

“So what? All writers are lunatics!” ― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.” ― Anaïs Nin

“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.” ― Ellen DeGeneres

“I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.” ― James A. Michener

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.” ― Michael Cunningham

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King, On Writing

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” ― Jack London

“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” ― Anaïs Nin

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ― Thomas Mann

“Write what should not be forgotten.” ― Isabel Allende

“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” ― E.L. Doctorow

“Tears are words that need to be written.” ― Paulo Coelho

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” ― Frank Herbert

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it” ― Roald Dahl

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ― Natalie Goldberg

“Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.” ― Don Roff

“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.” ― Christopher Hitchens

“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” ― Ray Bradbury

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” ― Emily Dickinson

“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.” ― Haruki Murakami

“Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” ― Eudora Welty

“It is the tale, not he who tells it.” ― Stephen King

“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.” ― Franz Kafka

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.” ― William Faulkner

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.” ― Anthony Burgess

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” ― Cyril Connolly

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ” ― Agatha Christie

“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” ― Joan Didion

“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.” ― Harper Lee

“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.” ― Philip Pullman

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ― Anne Frank

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” ― Virginia Woolf

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.” ― Franz Kafka

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