Francesca Lia Block Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Character, Writing, Cutting

• I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems didn't make sense to my teachers. They didn't rhyme. They were about the wind sounds, the planets' motions, never about who I was or how I felt. I didn't think I felt anything. I was this mind more than a body or a heart. My mind photographing the stars, hearing the wind.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Stars, Writing

• L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Wall, Writing, Winter

• I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep. But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Song, Falling In Love, Lying

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Stress, Believe, Writing

• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Writing, Magic, Kind

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

• I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

• Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Teacher, Believe, Healing

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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