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“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”
“The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.”
“Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our ...”
“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some wi...”
“...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)”
“For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?”
“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”
“I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and We...”
“Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.”
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”
“Ive always said, I have nothing to say, only to add. And its with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.”
“How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shape and disappear without anyone's ever writing them there were not interposed ...”
“I realized Michael was right. I mean, I am always writing in this journal. And I do compose a lot of poetry, and write a lot of notes and emails and stuff. I mean, I feel like I am always writing. ...”
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.”
“I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it...”
“We all know writing is a reclusive, lonely endeavour. It just is. But nobody writes alone.”
“I'll probably never produce a masterpiece, but so what? I feel I have a Sound aborning, which is my own, and that Sound if erratic is still my greatest pride, because I would rather write like a da...”
“Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard.”
“I love revisionsWe cant go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.”
