Inspirasie vir skrywers? Aanhalings van die meesters:
Inspirational quotes about writing? Advice from the masters:
Is dit net jy wat soms sukkel om die woorde te vind? Is it only you battling to find the words?
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” — Franz Kafka
“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.” — Ray Bradbury
“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
“Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. — Stephen King
“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” — William Faulkner
“He asked, “What makes a man a writer?” “Well,” I said, “it’s simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.” — Charles Bukowski
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London
“Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don’t always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive…. Virtually every page is a cliffhanger – you’ve got to force them to turn it.”
― Dr. Seuss
Wat maak van 'n skrywer 'n skrywer?/ What makes an author an author?
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” ― Aristotle
“Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to ‘write through it,’ because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work — for you or the reader.” — Orson Scott Card
“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
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” ― Khaled Hosseini
“The desire to write grows with writing.” ― Erasmus
“The wonderful thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting. The terrifying thing about writing is that there is always a blank page waiting.” — J.K. Rowling
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.” — Madeleine L’Engle
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” ― George Orwell
“It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.” ― H.G. Wells
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” — Saul Bellow
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost
Skryf lyk so maklik wanneer iemand anders dit doen./Writing seems really easy when someone else does it.
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann
“Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.” — Anon
“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” — Dan Poynter
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain
“My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn’t like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything.” — Stephenie Meyer
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King
“Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten.” ― Michael Crichton
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” — Orson Scott Card
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” ― Mark Twain
Het jy al gewonder of jy skryftalent het?/ Have you ever wondered whether you have the talent to write?
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.” — Joseph Heller
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” — Richard Bach
“Writing is like driving at night. You can see only as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ― E.L. Doctorow
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath
“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” — Agatha Christie
“Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” — J.K. Rowling
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ― Terry Pratchett
“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ― Jodi Picoult
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” ― Anton Chekhov
“When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.” — Stephen King