John Scalzi
Related There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE ROBERT B. PARKER WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN KATERINA STOYKOVA KLEMER Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finish... HOLLY LISLE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN People think writing is a very distinguished, cerebral thing, where all you do is write. It doesn... RAVI SUBRAMANIAN SOPHIA AMORUSO Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE FLANNERY O'CONNOR people have lost the true meaning of writing to write is not just to write something and get paid fo... DELESHA SHANTAE BUFORD No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it wel... GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You... BJORN ULVAEUS I write as if I'm someone reading the book - often people ask if I write one strand first and th... RUTH WARE It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money. DANA SPIOTTA LAINI TAYLOR JOYCE CHAPMAN NORA EPHRON DANNY STRONG COREY TAYLOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BRIAN ENO AMY GRANT NANCY LUBLIN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move... JAMES E. GUNN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CAITLYN JENNER A. S. BYATT JIM BROWN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FRANK MCCOURT ROBERT J. MCKAIN SEAN BEAN Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in ... SARAH WAYNE CALLIES AARON SORKIN DRAYMOND GREEN DIERKS BENTLEY The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK PAUL GRAHAM FLANNERY O'CONNOR KELLY ROWLAND HILARY MANTEL Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing ... NANCY ARROYO RUFFIN JIM HARRISON If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'... MARY GARDEN Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having c... JERRY POURNELLE We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously writ... ALEKSEY IGUDESMAN I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you ha... LORI GREINER A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY WENDY COPE JEAN CHATZKY ERNEST HEMINGWAY JULIA GLASS J. D. SOUTHER LEWIS CARROLL STEPHEN FRY CRAIG GROESCHEL EILEEN CADDY I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an ... ANTONYA NELSON GIGI HADID The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO JODI PICOULT It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ... EMILY ROBISON BRIAN SELZNICK VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN CYNTHIA OZICK PATRICK ROTHFUSS CHRIS CORNELL FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. WILBUR SMITH War is no solution to peace. BEN OAK Don't over edit. Don't second-guess yourself, or your ideas. Just write. Write every day, and keep a... HEATHER GRACE STEWART KAMAND KOJOURI CHRISTOPHER MELONI RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN EARL NIGHTINGALE Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your ca... RANDY JOHNSON EARL NIGHTINGALE MANDY HALE AVI PAULO COELHO I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting o... CHADWICK BOSEMAN PAUL RUDNICK EMILY CARR DANIEL RADCLIFFE I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading.... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It took a lot to understand that the interest in both writing a story and reading it is not in the o... ETGAR KERET In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no... ANGEL CABRERA CARMEN AGRA DEEDY
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If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone... 
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ... 
Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for ... 
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. 
A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'... 
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... 
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... 
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you d... 
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ... 
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. 
I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... 
I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, yo... 
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved b... 
I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for someth... 
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do th... 
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you... 
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. P... 
I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don&... 
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth readi... 
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ... 
The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes... 
I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no ... 
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands... 
One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the ... 
You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up y... 
What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task a... 
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... 
If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... 
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... 
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry beca... 
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... 
Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter wha... 
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible.... 
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro... 
I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exact... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in lov... 
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... 
The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work:... 
Everyone has a different body shape, so you kind of have to figure out not only what works best for ... 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... 
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don... 
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... 
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good ... 
You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and re... 
What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... 
Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your fac... 
It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write. 
It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what y... 
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. 
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Dont wait for something outside of yoursel... 
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of your... 
Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. 
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w... 
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towa... 
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading... 
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in ... 
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... 
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. 
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont thin... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I've loved reading all my life. 
In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures. 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... 
The day will happen whether or not you get up. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
Rome was not built in one day. 
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. 
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all... 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal... 