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Writing Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer
- Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your…
- The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
- I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
- My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave…
- Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any…
- My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's…
- A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has…
- The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not…
- I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
- I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
- One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov