Now that Luke's Tale is finished, I've been working on a new novel entitled Snow Blood. Not ready to tell you about it yet. But, I was looking for inspiration from great writers today and ran across these tidbits that I wanted to share. I think they can be applicable to more than just writing.
- I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. - Stephen King
- Half my life is an act of revision. - John Irving
- All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. - George Orwell
- It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way. - Ernest Hemingway
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. - Christopher Hampton
- It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. - William Faulkner
- Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly. - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences. - Anne McCaffrey
- A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down...If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger
- The End...for tonight.
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