Writing

The writing process can be epitomized in the following quotes:
 AI believe in miracles in every area of life except writing. The only thing that produces good writing is hard work.   Isac Bashevis Singer.

Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he will eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.  Ray Bradbury.

Exercise the writing muscle everyday, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry, whatever. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.   Jane Yolen.

People on the outside think there is something magical about writing, that they go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit back on the type writer and you work, and that it is all there is to it.  Harlon Ellison.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind. Ayn Rand.

Writing is its own reward. Henry Miller.

Great is the art of the beginning, but greater is the art of ending. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage- as long as you edit brilliantly. C.J.Cherryh.

Half of my life is an act of revision. John Irving.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Ernest Hemingway.