August 2011
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“Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If...”
– Stephen King (via writingadvice)
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“If you don’t allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad,...”
– Steven Galloway (via writingadvice)
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“Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between...”
– Geoff Dyer (via writingadvice)
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“Don’t say you’re a writer if you’re not writing. You’re not a writer, and who...”
– Patti Digh (via writingadvice)
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“There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are...”
– J. K. Galbraith (via writingadvice)
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“I meet a lot of people who claim to be writers. They like to identify with the...”
– Jem Matzan, Who you are and who you think you are (via writingadvice)
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“You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or...”
– Linda Fairstein (via writingadvice)
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via inspiredbylit)
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“A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his...”
– Charles Peguy (via writingadvice)
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likewaxspilling:
There’s another skin inside my skin that gathers to your touch, a lake to the light; that looses its memory, its lost language into your tongue, erasing me into newness.
— From “Flowers,” by Anne Michaels
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“I don’t know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always...”
– J. D. Salinger (via troubled)
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“The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not...”
– John Barth (via The Paris Review)
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The Condition is Healthy
In my opinion, if I could write all of my work again, I am convinced that I would do it better, which is the healthiest condition for an artist. That’s why he keeps on working, trying again; he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won’t, which is why this condition is healthy. Once he did it, once he matched the work to the image, the dream, nothing...
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via excessivebookshelf)
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“One hasn’t become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and...”
– Niyi Osundare (via writingadvice)
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Riots for Good
It frustrates me that there are no riots for good. What if people could take to the streets en masse and patch potholes, clean gutters, paint storefronts, and dance? When our rules are deconstructed, when we are finally free of them, the only thing we can trust ourselves to do is destroy.
Hank Green via tumblr
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“Instead of pretending there’s a million dollar prize for writing the best script...”
– Dan Harmon
“That’s what turns young men and women into writers—the happiness you discover...”
– Paul Aster (via theparisreview)
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