Writing Quote of the Day #7 (William Faulkner)

“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the masters Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.”
William Faulkner

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Writing Quote of the Day #6 (John Irving)

“A writer’s job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”          John Irving

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Writing Quote of the Day #5 (Garrison Keillor)

I confess that when I was in my early 20s and was given some cassette tapes featuring Garrison Keillor I totally did not get his appeal. But somewhere on a long road trip I’m sure (as well as a few more years of life lived) I stumbled upon A Prairie Home Companion on some remote [...]

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Writing Quote of the Day #4 (Lynn Nottage)

What do the plays Ruined and Driving Miss Daisy have in common? They both won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and both happened to have been written by graduates of Brown University (Lynn Nottage ‘86 and Alfred Uhry ‘59). I’ve been thinking a lot about Ruined after seeing it last Saturday and for some reason [...]

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Writing Quote #3 (Maurice Sendak)

“I never spent less than two years on the text of one of my picture books, even though each of them is approximately 380 words long. Only when the text is finished … do I begin the pictures.”
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Writing Quote #2 (Richard Bach)

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”  
                                                Richard Bach 

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Writing Quote #1 (Flannery O’Connor)

(I had hope to get the film I made last weekend uploaded today but had a little technical glitch so maybe I’ll get it up Monday.)
There are a lot of great quotes out there by writers who had nothing to do with screenwriting so I’ve decided to start a new section on quotes about writing [...]

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