Lawrence Block Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.

  Lawrence Block

  Morning, Writing, Giving

• If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

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  Lying, Writing, Dark

  Lawrence Block (1985). “Writing the Novel from Plot to Print”, Writers Digest Books

• The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one.

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  Writing, Stories, World

• I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

  Lawrence Block

  Writing, Goes On, Want

• I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

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  Writing, Thinking, Next

• The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

  Lawrence Block

  Book, Writing, People

  Roundtable with Jon Meacham, www.newsweek.com. June 26, 2009.

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