307 Quotes About Creative-writing

With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, there's no excitement like it. It's marvelous. It makes you feel like God on the Seventh Day – for a bit, anyhow.

Every time you go to see Hamlet you don't expect it to have a happy ending...you're still enthralled.(Interview BBC Radio 4 Today 17 October 2012.)

Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge into an image or thought, and wording the thought, thus contributing all the activity of your mind to the immortal culture of humankind and subsequently to your own immortality.

Every kingdom has three pillars: Poet, Sword and Law.

Plays are nearly always about the consequences of events while films are usually about the events. The what-happens-next factor is essential in film.

There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ...