"inspirational"タグの名言

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.

You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know

Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally dissolved the writer’s block that had inhibited the author from starting work. I have since used it whenever I myself have been gripped by fear of the blank sheet in front of me. It is infallible, and its effect is always the same: the knot unravels and a stream of words gushes out on to the virgin paper. It acts like a magic spell and I sometimes fancy it really is one. But, even if it isn’t the work of a sorcerer, it is certainly the most brilliant sentence any writer has ever devised. It runs: ‘This is where my story begins.’

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... ...and then to give us the stories of men and women of character who in turn inspire those of us who dare to reach for the truly great within ourselves. THAT is why you write fiction.

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!