Showing posts with label Jack London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack London. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them

"Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will none the less get something that looks remarkably like it." —Jack London



Someone asked me the other day what my cure was for writer's block. My answer? Write.



It's all better with friends.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Writerly Wisdom




Do you have a favorite writing quote?

I've got gobs, but here are a few of my favorites:

"A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts." T. Davis Bunn

"Writing is easy. You just stare at the paper until blood drips from your forehead." Gene Fowler

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." Sylvia Plath (This one is currently stuck in the frame that holds my 2010 goals.)

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

"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning." Peter De Vries

"When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip." Elmore Leonard

Oh! One more . . .

"Success is going from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm." Winston Churchill



CR: Blood Game by Iris Johansen.

It's all better with friends.