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“And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the oth...”
“The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example is easy to give but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says 'I do not have enough talent'. One has onl...”
“Im a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any chance I get, anywhere I am, for as long as life will let me. Music helps...”
“May in Varanasi. 25 and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the B...”
“Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in f...”
“If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, youre allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can.”
“There are two kinds of writing the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is dangerous. You go where you don't want to go. You look where you don't want to look. ”
“drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through I cannot imagine a higher goal for todays writer.”
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to...”
“Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.”
“Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.”
“Write when you least feel like it,Because that's when you write best.”
“Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad.”
“It's a weird thing, writing.Sometimes you can look out across what you're writing, and it's like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer's day. You can see every leaf on every tree...”
“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
“From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: "There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on...”
“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”
“I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.”
“Write what will stop your breath if you dont write.”
“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?”
