Think, Write, Create

In preparation for my novel writing class, which begins in two weeks, I’m dousing myself with inspiration. It can’t hurt.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the 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

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

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. – Mark Twain

After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. – Philip Pullman

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. – Kurt Vonnegut

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. – Maya Angelou

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. – Ernest Hemingway

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. – Jack London