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~fiirsttherain Aug 11, 2012 Writer

Mine would be: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
― Ernest Hemingway

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~ChibiLovett Aug 17, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Ok so it isn't exactly motivational or anything, but it makes me giggle.

"Here's my job description. I, a 37-year-old man, hide down in my basement and pretend to be a 13-year-old girl talking to a centaur and then I come back upstairs and ask people to buy it." ~ Brandon Mull

And another. Probably some of the best advice I've ever gotten. More aimed towards those that find it takes a REEEEEALLY long time to finish something because your inner critic won't shut up.

"Be a vomiter, not a bleeder. Write as much as you can quickly, no matter how bad it sounds, just to get it done and finish the story. Then go back and make it sound pretty. Don't judge it on the way until you're finished and going back to edit." ~ Kristen Chandler

Note these are just from memory since they were from when I met Brandon and Kristen at the Teen Author Boot Camp I went to, so they're not fantastic or anything. I just like them. =3

~fiirsttherain Aug 18, 2012 Writer

I love the first one.

~Lytrigian Aug 17, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

"Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it--wholeheartedly--and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings." -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

~fiirsttherain Aug 17, 2012 Writer

❝

We writers, we kind of do have that reputation, and not just writers, but creative people across all genres, it seems, have this reputation for being enormously mentally unstable. And all you have to do is look at the very grim death count in the 20th century alone, of really magnificent creative minds who died young and often at their own hands, you know? And even the ones who didn’t literally commit suicide seem to be really undone by their gifts, you know. Norman Mailer, just before he died, last interview, he said ‘Every one of my books has killed me a little more.’ An extraordinary statement to make about your life’s work, you know. But we don’t even blink when we hear somebody say this because we’ve heard that kind of stuff for so long and somehow we’ve completely internalized and accepted collectively this notion that creativity and suffering are somehow inherently linked and that artistry, in the end, will always ultimately lead to anguish.

And the question that I want to ask everybody here today is are you guys all cool with that idea? Are you comfortable with that — because you look at it even from an inch away and, you know — I’m not at all comfortable with that assumption. I think it’s odious. And I also think it’s dangerous, and I don’t want to see it perpetuated into the next century. I think it’s better if we encourage our great creative minds to live."

— - Elizabeth Gilbert

*J-Carver Aug 17, 2012 Professional General Artist

Sounds like her ted talk.

~fiirsttherain Aug 17, 2012 Writer

I think that's where it's from.

`Memnalar Aug 16, 2012

Relevant stuff here: [link]

~fiirsttherain Aug 16, 2012 Writer

Nice!

~saiyan-frost Aug 16, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

"I is gud righter"

- Neopets

~fiirsttherain Aug 16, 2012 Writer

Haha.

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