“Metaphors work a lot better when you don’t draw attention to the fact that they’re metaphors.”
Elliott Smith
“(…) Maggie and Ray basically handle most of my thoughts, though a lot of times I purposely put thoughts into my characters that I don’t personally agree with. It keeps them interesting and real.”
Jaime Hernandez
“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.”
Ray Bradbury
“It’s more painful not to write than it is to write.”
Tony Gilroy
“I don’t actually start writing the story itself until I know how the story ends. Typically the first part of the story that I write is the very ending, either the last paragraph of the story or a paragraph near the end. Once I have the destination in mind then I can build the rest of the story around that or build the rest of the story in such a way as to lead up to that. Usually the second thing I write is the opening of the story and then I write the rest of the story in almost random order. I just keep writing scenes until I’ve connected the beginning and the end.”
Ted Chiang
(Source: Boing Boing)
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller
“If you do know what to write, and you’re not writing — well, that’s not writer’s block either. That’s just not writing. Not writing is probably the best way I know of not to get a book written.”
Neil Cross
(Source: neil-cross.com)
“I think that if I couldn’t write, I would be unemployable. But I also love writing. I’m not particularly comfortable in the actual world—I’m much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.”
Aaron Sorkin
(Source: interviewmagazine.com)
“Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was “terrible,” describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was “delightful”; make us say “delightful” when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, “Please will you do my job for me.”
C.S. Lewis
(Source: lettersofnote.com)
“A writer who understands this as a basic task— keeping the audience’s attention on what comes next — is free to go about it in any way her imagination and inventiveness allows.”
Paul Joseph Gulino
“At every single moment, every single person wants something. Often many things, often conflicting things.”
Charlie Kaufman
“How many pounds of disbelief will you ask me to suspend before this thing is over?”
Tony Gilroy
“The surprise is not the story”
Ridley Scott
“Movies are about what characters do and say, not who they were before the story started.”
John August
(Source: johnaugust.com)
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