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Wed 3 Aug 2016

Together

Posted by PJ under community, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The gist of it is that no one writes alone: one needs a community.”

—Robert Bly, interview, The Paris Review, Spring 2000, No. 154

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 8 Jul 2016

Condemned

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Random quote of the day:

“If one is condemned to write, one writes.”

—Julio Cortázar, interview, The Paris Review, No. 93, Fall 1984

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Wed 8 Jun 2016

Writers

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Random quote of the day:

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

—Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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Thu 7 Apr 2016

For the gods

Posted by PJ under gods, journals, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“My Journal is that of me which would else spill over and run to waste, gleanings from the field which in action I reap. I must not live for it, but in it for the gods. They are my correspondents, to whom daily I send off this sheet postpaid.”

—Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, February 8, 1841

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Fri 1 Apr 2016

Not to mention…

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, remembrance, writers
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Random quote of the day:

“I love the flowers of afterthought.”

—Bernard Malamud, The Paris Review, Spring 1975, No. 61

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Wed 23 Mar 2016

Spring chickens

Posted by PJ under aging, quote of the day, writers
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Random quote of the day:

“Athletes & writers age differently. They are old at 30; we are spring chickens. We’re not even middle aged till our 60s.”

—Justine Larbalestier, Twitter, June 4, 2011

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Tue 1 Mar 2016

Night

Posted by PJ under driving, quote of the day, scenes from the commute, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“[The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

—E. L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101

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Mon 8 Feb 2016

Reclusivity

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Random quote of the day:

“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”

—Susan Sontag, “When Writers Talk Amongst Themselves,” The New York Times, January 5, 1986

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Wed 20 Jan 2016

Craftsmen

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Random quote of the day:

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

—Ernest Hemingway, New York Journal-American, 11 July 1961

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Wed 13 Jan 2016

Compulsion

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Random quote of the day:

“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life—sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist—except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”

—Paul Auster, “I Want To Tell A Story,” The Guardian, 4 November 2006

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