Daily Creative Nudge

It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

If you have four ideas, all equally viable, I’d recommend writing the one that has the best ending. That’s the one you’ve thought through the most, and the one you’re least likely to abandon midway.

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it is simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

Write from your heart; rewrite from your head.

Our primary function is to create an emotion and our second job is to sustain that emotion.

Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

If a ten year old doesn’t understand the content of an artwork, then by no means can it be called revolutionary.