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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach
Perseverance, Writing, Editing
Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.9, Dell

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

Richard Bach
Lying, Book, Writing

I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.

Richard Bach
Writing, Dark, Doors
Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.3, Delta

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

Richard Bach
Fun, Writing, Thinking
Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.

Richard Bach
Stars, Writing, Thinking
Source: www.inner-growth.info

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

Richard Bach
Writing, Different, World
Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Richard Bach
Letting Go, Book, Writing

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

Richard Bach
Writing, Doe, Touch Someone

When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

Richard Bach
Writing, Character, Tunnels
Source: www.inner-growth.info

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

Richard Bach
Writing, Thinking, Keys

Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare writer who comes alive on a page does it by giving of himself, by writing of meanings, and not just of fact or of things that have happened to him. The writers of flight who have done this are usually found together in a special section on private bookshelves.

Richard Bach
Writing, Airplane, Giving
Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.94, Dell

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

Richard Bach
Book, Writing, Way
Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing.

Richard Bach
Change, Writing, Political

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].

Richard Bach
Writing, Ideas, Two
Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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