| Writing Tips (continued) | | Date Created: Feb 01, 2006, 04:52 PM |
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I recently saw a blog entry called "The Top Ten Habits of Successful People" that went on with a list something like "1. Tennis; 2. Golf; 3. Reading with a drink at poolside..." and stuff like that. In that vein, here's a stab at the Ten Top Habits of Writers:
1. Writing
2. Observing
3. Musing
4. Writing
5. Rewriting
6. Trying to think things through from a different angle
7. Coming back to their original way of thinking, enriched
8. Writing
9. Rewriting
10. Rationalizing not having written.
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Here are the quotations I promised.
If I had to give young writers advice, I'd say don't listen to writers talking [blogging] about writing.
-- Lillian Hellman [addition mine]
I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
-- Fred Allen
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
-- Walter Benjamin
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, “Is he as crazy as I am?” I don’t need that question answered.
-- Philip Roth
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
-- Elmore Leonard
The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.
-- John Steinbeck |
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