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Tue 17 Apr 2018

Sloth

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

“Sloth in writers is always a symptom of an acute inner conflict, especially that laziness which renders them incapable of doing the thing which they are most looking forward to.”

—Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise”

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Wed 14 Mar 2018

Finished

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

“The minute a writer knows what his style is, he’s finished.”

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

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Thu 22 Feb 2018

Writing something

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Random quote of the day:

“I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, ‘Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.’ She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. My daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, ‘Is he sick?’ ‘No,’ my wife says, ‘he’s writing something.’”

—James Thurber, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1958, ed. Malcolm Crowley

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Fri 26 Jan 2018

An old lady’s worth

Posted by PJ under art, daimons and demons, dreams and dreamtime, quote of the day, writers, writing
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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t (sic) know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done….The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old ladies.”

—William Faulkner, The Paris Review, Issue 12, Spring 1956

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Wed 29 Nov 2017

Flow

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

“The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.”

—John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 1930

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Tue 3 Oct 2017

Alive

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

“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”

—Martin Amis, The Paris Review, Iss. 146, Spring 1998

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Fri 21 Jul 2017

Doubts

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Random quote of the day:

“A writer must never speak of his doubts regarding his creation. It would be too easy to answer him: “Who is forcing you to create? If it is such constant anguish, why do you endure it?” Doubts are the most intimate thing about us. Never speak of one’s doubts, whatever they may be.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951, tr. Justin O’Brien

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Wed 17 May 2017

Gluttony

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

“The only way you learn how to write is by writing….Because that is the way it is done. Because there is no other way to do it. Not one other way….Compulsive diligence is almost enough. But not quite. You have to have a taste for words. Gluttony. You have to want to roll in them. You have to read millions of them by other people. You read everything with grinding envy or weary contempt.”

—John D. McDonald, introduction to Stephen King’s Night Shift

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Thu 4 May 2017

Striking out

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

“When one has written a story I believe that one ought to strike out both the beginning and the end. That is where we novelists are most inclined to lie.”

—Anton Chekhov, as remembered by Ivan Bunin in A. P. Chekhov (tr. Constance Garnett)

 

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Thu 30 Mar 2017

Important advice

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

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”

—Lillian Hellman, The New York Times, February 21, 1960

 

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