Will Shetterly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.
-- Will Shetterly

#Moving #Writing #Creativity
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
-- Will Shetterly

#Writing #Principles #Throwing
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
-- Will Shetterly

#Writing #Firsts
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.
-- Will Shetterly

#Writing #Opportunity #Fake
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.
-- Will Shetterly

#Fiction #Impossible #Fantasy
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.
-- Will Shetterly

#Dirty #Done #Dirty Business
It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.
-- Will Shetterly

#People
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.
-- Will Shetterly

#Humorous #Writing #Space

As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Will Shetterly famous quotes

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