#pw quotes
“Write what you love, write the story you are obsessed with, that you’ve been boring your friends with for years.”
- Madeline Miller
“Write the thing that won’t let you go until you give it shape in the world.”
- Madeline Miller
“The only time you enjoy writing is when you finish it.”
- Neil Diamond
“…if you’re trying to write a bestseller, you’re wasting your time.”
- Madeline Miller
“Craft comes in when the idea doesn’t just drop into your lap and you have to draw from a set of tools that you have developed over the years.”
- Lin Manuel Miranda
“Every writer is different, so in the end, set all advice aside, and do whatever works for you.”
- Madeline Miller
“…that’s what it takes—waking up and knowing you’ve still got challenges within it, and how are you going to crack this problem, and how are you going to compress this section. You’ve got to be able to go into that work lovingly, willingly.”
- Lin Manuel Miranda
“Sometimes you have to sneak attack the page.”
- Lin Manuel Miranda
“Bad drafts are completely normal, and part of the process. You have to write the bad drafts to get to the better ones. Don’t be afraid to throw things out.”
- Madeline Miller
“There’s no better inspiration or motivation for work than being in love. It’s what you dream of as a creative person.”
- Neil Diamond
“Never stop reading, but take writing breaks when you feel yourself burning out.”
- Casey McQuiston
“When you find something really wonderful, read it first as a reader, and then again as a writer: where you’re watching to see how the author makes the magic happen.”
- Madeline Miller
“Make what’s missing.”
- Lin Manuel Miranda
“Sometimes, writing wears me down, and I must take a rest from it. I turn to art that is wordless and forces me to communicate in other ways. Painting gave me a form of communication that writing could never give me.”
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“It’s important for me to touch base with the story every day. Even if I know I don’t have time to write, taking ten minutes to think about it, or reread a chapter, helps to keep the fictional dream firmly in my mind.”
- Madeline Miller
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die.”— Isaac Asimov
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”— Ray Bradbury
“You can fix anything but a blank page.”— Nora Roberts
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over.”— Stephen King
