Creativity and writing Quote by Jane Yolen Download Open image “Exercise the writing muscle every day.” — Jane Yolen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creativity and writing Every day Exercise Fitness Inspirational Muscles Successful writing Writers and writing Writing Writing by writers Writing every day Writing notes
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes.” — Judy Penz Sheluk Copy Share Image
Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Look to your own muscles for inspiration. Every time you work them down, they come back even stronger — Superman Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Cinderella, until lately, has never been a passive dreamer waiting for rescue. The forerunners of the Ash-girl have all been hardy, active heroines who… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised? — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image