There's gold in the things we think but never say
Wise quotes on writing from Doris Lessing, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris, and Eminem.
“You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life—the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.”
-Doris Lessing
“Everything is copy.”
-Nora Ephron
“My job is to take whatever [expletive] thing is in front of me and make it laughable. You have to be in a certain state to make that happen, and I’m always in that state.”
-David Sedaris
"The first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one."
-Arthur van Hoff
“When I write, I write the things that I think of. I think a lot of other people think the same things I do too, they just don’t say it.”
-Eminem
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