“Whoa. i have been trying to write an essay. like one of those ones i used to write all the time. ALL THE TIME. And my muscle memory is gone. I am rereading some old ones and i could swear someone else did them. IS THIS WHAT HAPPENS.”— Mary H.K. Choi, twitter.com
“Tonight I sat down to write and found nothing happening. This has happened to me ten thousand times before and no time has it ever been helped by berating myself, yet that's immediately what I did. It's weird how this job induces selective amnesia.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“The terrifying truth of the writing life: however many words you wrote last week, you still have to write a load this week.”— Joe Abercrombie, twitter.com
“A novel has roughly six stages of 'done.' 1: 'I know how it ends, but not how to do it.' 2: 'I know how to do it, but haven't written it.' 3: 'I wrote it, but it sucks.' 4: 'I wrote it again, but it needs work.' 5: 'I finished the work, but I'm still not happy.' 6: 'good enough'”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Writing is 98% hell, 1% finding the word you wanted without using a thesaurus at all, and 1% eating a snack in celebration of finding said word.”— rachel syme, twitter.com
“Writing is an act of paying attention. Of moving towards the essential which lies, hidden, behind the costumes, baubles & doodads of survival. Remove all the noise and explore what you are left with: what is your self busy hiding from your self?”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“Let's say you write a book. You get an agent. Your agent thinks the book is flawless and requests no changes. She sells it to an editor. The editor thinks the book is flawless and requests no changes. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED. IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. STOP IMAGINING IT. So if you want to be traditionall…”— Delilah S. Dawson, twitter.com