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Now we know why some writers drink!

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023 290

There is a stereotype out there about writers. They’re talented and frustrated and hit the bottle way too often. Maybe the reason some talented writers are frustrated and drink to excess is because of what they’re asked to write. Example:

Why Writers Drink

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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.

Chris Claremont

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

Just don’t be boring!