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Mon 4 Oct 2021

Talent

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

“Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred. No novel exists which an ordinary intelligence could not conceive; there is no sentence, no matter how lovely, that a beginner could not construct. What remains is to pick up the pen, to rule the paper, patiently to fill it up.”

—Jules Renard, Journal, 1887 (ed. & tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Wed 1 Sep 2021

Optimism

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

“Writing is an act of optimism. You assume there is somebody out there to pay attention. To those people who accuse me of being a pessimist I always say, ‘Nonsense, I write.’”

—Edward Albee, Edward Albee: Planned Wilderness, Living Authors Series No. 3, ed. Patricia De La Fuente, 1980

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Tue 10 Aug 2021

Anon

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

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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Mon 12 Jul 2021

Creation

Posted by PJ under books, conscious and subconscious, creation, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”

—Salman Rushdie, Independent on Sunday, 4 February 1990

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Wed 7 Jul 2021

People

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, quote of the day, the human condition, themes, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“There’s a notion out in the land that there are human beings one writes about, and then there are black people or Indians or some other marginal group. If you write about the world from that point of view, somehow it is considered lesser. It’s racist, of course. The fact that I chose to write about black people means I’ve only been stimulated to write about black people. We are people, not aliens. We live, we love, we die.”

—Toni Morrison, Black Women Writers at Work, ed. Claudia Tate

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Tue 18 May 2021

Demon

Posted by PJ under doubt, inner demons, procrastination, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Secretly writers do love the censor within. We say we hate that sanctimonious inner voice, but there is no better excuse for procrastination, lethargy and despair. There is no better excuse for getting nothing done than to lock yourself in battle with the famous inner demons of self-criticism and doubt.”

—Allegra Goodman, “O.K., You’re Not Shakespeare. Not Get Back to Work,” The New York Times, March 12, 2001

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Mon 3 May 2021

Cliché

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

“My stories come to me as clichés. A cliché is a cliché because it’s worthwhile. Otherwise, it would have been discarded. A good cliché can never be overwritten; it’s still mysterious.”

—Toni Morrison, Black Women Writers at Work, ed. Claudia Tate

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Fri 26 Feb 2021

Typewriter

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

“A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy and unlimbers his typewriter.”

—E. B. White, The Paris Review, Fall 1969, No. 48

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Fri 19 Feb 2021

Pride

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

“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.”

—J. D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction

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Wed 2 Dec 2020

Reaction

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

“No writer ever wrote exactly what he wanted to write, because there was never anything inside himself, anything purely individual that he did want to write. It’s all reaction of one sort or another.”

—Raymond Chandler, letter to Charles Morton, October 28, 1947

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