Quotes by Writing You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about. Bent Saether boredwritingsong I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime. Bentley Little writingjobsbook Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop. Bentley Little internet-accessfrustrationwriting I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels. Bentley Little writingjobsthinking I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. This is the way my mind works. Bentley Little choicesdarknesswriting Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable. Bentley Little novelistsrealwriting Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters. Bergen Evans magpiesglitterwriting It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking. Bergen Evans punctuation-markswritingthinking Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill. Bergen Evans confusionskillswriting I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed paperwritingyears My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. Berkeley Breathed writingbookchildren I write with teenagers in mind. Bernard Beckett teenagermindwriting Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. Bernard Berenson literaturehumanitywriting Writing is a solitary occupation. Bernard Cornwell solitaryoccupationwriting And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. Bernard Cornwell teamwritingbook At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. Bernard Cornwell careerswritingthinking The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship. Bernard Cornwell queenskingswriting Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one. Bernard Cornwell writingbookthinking The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. Bernard DeVoto paperwritingmay I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there. Bernard Fanning guitarwritingsong«140141142143144145146147148149150»
