Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Writing Adventure

Do any of these describe your writing?

Robert Louis Stevenson:
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean."

Winston Churchill:
"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public."

Saul Bellow:
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."

Henry David Thoreau:
"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."

1 comment:

Beth Barany said...

What great quotes! I like that Winston Churchill quote. That's exactly how I feel!