I sometimes write as fast as I can, as I’m doing now, to see what my subconscious will let out of the cage.
So how am I able to write with those two chatterboxes still going non-stop behind me?
“I don’t understand why people call them deadlines. The word should be lifelines.”
What is a writer to do in a world that is trying its best, day and night, to stop him from sitting down and writing?…
It’s 9:45 in the evening. I’m sitting at my computer to write about time and the writing process. I usually don’t write around this time…
Writing has made me walk and walking has made me write. When I quit the teaching profession at the age of 29 to become a…
That’s what writing is all about–confidence. Confidence is so important, especially in the writing process. When you have confidence you write freely and loosely, you’re…
“I love the honesty and authenticity of Joseph Sutton’s voice. The fear of the writer is revealed in his book Write Now!, mirroring the fear…
I go over a piece–an essay, poem, story or chapter–maybe 10, 20, 50 or 100 times before it becomes a final draft. I constantly go…
For the past few years I find that writing my first drafts flow much better while sitting in a coffeehouse, library or even my car.…
I chose to become a writer in 1969 because I felt compelled to write a novel–A Class of Leaders. I wanted to share it with…
Pen and paper are a must at all times, even on your nightstand, because you never know when an idea will come a-knockin’.
I write to encourage people who want to write but who don’t have the confidence in themselves to put words on paper.
Me, I love to write. What am I doing today to make myself a better writer? I’m writing.
Just write, don’t stop, keep your pen or fingers moving and don’t look back until you’re finished.
If you wait for inspiration to start writing, you might have to wait weeks, months or even years. The first thing you have to do…
I have a mantra that goes, “Write, Revise, Advertise and Exercise.” Write means to write in my journal or create a story. Revise—to rework an…
There have been many times I’ve looked out the window of my study and said to myself, “It sure would be nice to get outside…
I looked at my e-mail today and found that a literary agent in New York is interested in reading a hundred pages of a novel…
For the past few months I’ve been experiencing a dry spell in my writing because I’ve been busy promoting my latest book “Write Now!” What…
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading Joseph Sutton’s Write Now! Again, like in his Morning Pages, I could identify with so much. In this case it’s his…
“Joseph Sutton does it again in Write Now! as he chronicles the trials, tribulations and downright humiliations of being a writer…”
“Reading Write Now! is like watching a Polaroid picture develop. You become part of the process.” —Delia Moon, film producer, publisher and writer
“Joseph Sutton lets us into his writer’s world, and into his life, and shows us the way: A daily practice of putting words to page.…
“If you’re a writer or want to be a writer, Write Now! will lead you into the writer’s life–to the life of rejection, questioning your…
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Write Now! is a powerful little book about writing, getting published and selling your book. It’s about the urge to write, writing mentors, writer’s block,…
“Morning Pages is truly inspiring! In fact, so much so, that I have started to write down my own ‘recollections.’ Joseph Sutton makes his stories…
Joseph Sutton is the master of the personal essay. In a handful of pages, he tells a small tale and ends each with an epiphany.
Joseph Sutton, God bless him, writes in the grand storyteller tradition of Jean Shepherd and William Saroyan
In Morning Pages, Sutton incorporates several short stories—amalgamating truth and fiction—which appear as if written by Halaby. A writer, Halaby is “having trouble writing” until…
San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton’s novel, Morning Pages: The Almost True Story of My Life, provides a rare glimpse into all the thoughts and feelings…
Syrian-Jewish writer and Los Angeles native Joseph Sutton (b. 1940) has just published his first novel, Morning Pages: The Almost True Story of My Life,…
“Joseph Sutton has an eye–for navel oranges and red rubies, for heroic cats and noble geckoes, for perfect mouths and super-sized bartenders.”
“Joseph Sutton is an exciting, vivid, and unique writer. He’s written two stories about his mentor William Saroyan in this collection. He covers a whole…
“Joseph Sutton loads all the bases with such classic American themes as sports, travel on the road, and rollercoaster relationships… [and] brings these tales home…
“Imagine taking your seat for a long flight with your favorite book. But the guy sitting next to you starts telling a story. A minute…
It’s not every day that someone goes from contemplating God to feeling like an average Joe in the same breath. But this makes perfect sense…
“When you think of Los Angeles, what comes to mind? Most people see a kaleidoscopic image of vibrant glamour, broken dreams, infinite variety, and cheap…
What is the writer’s method? How does a writer get strings of inspired words from his mind onto the page? Not very damn well if…
The Immortal Mouth and Other Stories is a collection of 30 short stories dealing with classic American themes—fathers and sons, hitting the open road, roller-coaster…
Grouped into 120 alphabetized categories (from “Achievement” to “Mind and Body” to “Young and Old”), this collection of more than 2,000 highly enlightening, inspiring and…