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Thu 23 Mar 2017

You are not the bazaar

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

“Figuring out what the public wants, or even what the public is: that’s the job of pollsters and publicists and advertisers. All those people study the marketplace. But the creative artist can change the world. A true writer opens people’s ears and eyes, not merely playing to the public, but changing minds and lives. This is sacred work.”

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

 

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Fri 17 Mar 2017

Blocked

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

“When I sit down in order to write, sometimes it’s there; sometimes it’s not. But that doesn’t bother me anymore. I tell my students there is such a thing as “writer’s block,” and they should respect it. You shouldn’t write through it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now.”

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

 

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Wed 8 Mar 2017

Think it out

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

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.”

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Locked Rooms and Open Doors

 

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Wed 1 Mar 2017

Your reward

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

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.”

—Ernest Hemingway, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, September 13, 1929

 

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Fri 10 Feb 2017

Advice

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

“Writers often give advice they don’t follow to the letter themselves.”

—Tobias Wolff, The Paris Review, Issue 171, Fall 2004

 

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Tue 17 Jan 2017

Trashy

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

“The main rule of writing is never to pity your manuscript. If you see something is no good, throw it away and begin again….The wastepaper basket is a writer’s best friend. My wastepaper basket is on a steady diet.”

—Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times, March 23, 1975

 

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Tue 20 Dec 2016

First drafts

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

“First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge, to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it, so that it says more and says it better.”

—Bernard Malamud, Bennington College Commencement, June 12, 1981

 

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Mon 17 Oct 2016

Do it

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

“Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.”

—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Tue 20 Sep 2016

It’s so hard

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Random quote of the day:

“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”

—Marianne Moore, The Paris Review, No. 26, Summer-Fall 1961

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Thu 11 Aug 2016

Freelance

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

“The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”

—Robert Benchley, quoted by James Thurber in The Bermudian

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