Bunny Hammond > Bunny's Quotes

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
― Anais Nin

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”
― Neil Gaiman

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
― Anais Nin

“And when things get tough, this is what you should do.

Make good art.

I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

Make it on the good days too.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
― Anne Rice

“The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.”
― Jack London

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself”
― William Faulkner

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.”
― Walter Mosley

“But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey?
Nothing, you say? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
Truly, would you not for less than that make the tour around the world?”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“By George!" cried the inspector. "How did you ever see that?"

Because I looked for it.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Dancing Men

“I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have more of the more you give away?'
'Oh, love I suppose.”
― Madeline L'Engle, Madeline Engle's Time Quintet (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Titling Planet, An Acceptable Time)