307 Quotes About Creative-writing

If you have a simply swell story in mind, you can forget the rules. A swell story takes care of itself.

As a writer you try to listen to what others aren't saying...and write about the silence.

Your head will tell you a thousand times that it’s over before your heart will.

I wish I could wake up tomorrowwith a mind that does not constantlyremind me of the pain of yesterday.

Not all Fantasy stories come from an empty box, instead; it comes from the heart of imagination.

Poetry is, after all, only nonsense and justifies what would be considered impudence if written in prose.

I read a few of those books on how to write a screenplay, but, just like I told you with the school thing, once again, most of those books are written by someone who’s never written a good script. You look at the writer’s credits and they’ve written one episode of The Golden Girls or something. People who write good scripts, write scripts. They don’t write books about writing scripts.

When I quit smoking, they told me it takes three days to be able to breathe normally again, five days until I’m no longer physically addicted, seven days until there’s no more nicotine in my blood, six months to be entirely clean and fifteen years until the chance of a sudden death due to the consequences of smoking is minimized to 50%.I wish somebody could tell me how long it would take to be over you, too.

Forgetting is easier than having to remember for as long as it takes not to hurt anymore.