Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.
Robert HassStichwörter: writers-on-writing
Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.
Sheila HetiStichwörter: writers-on-writing
Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.
Jo DeurbrouckStichwörter: writing story storytelling writer nonfiction writers-on-writing creative-nonfiction storyteller writerly-life
... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: books writing creativity book creative-process writing-advice editing writers-on-writing writing-process writing-books editing-humor writers-quotes writers-and-writing
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul SimonStichwörter: writer writers-on-writing pen
Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a packed suitcase. It did so now. So she did what many a researcher both great and insignificant does when they are stuck. She yawned while contemplating how to catch the Muse by surprising Her. Almost invariably, the Muse has seen it all before - and also yawns.
Mavis CheekStichwörter: inspiration muse writers-on-writing amenable-women
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
Thomas PynchonStichwörter: paranoia writers-on-writing
But then all writers smoke, don't they? And drink? And sit in front of computer screens till their arteries clog and muscles atrophy?
T. Coraghessan BoyleStichwörter: writers-on-writing
Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to writing.
H Raven RoseStichwörter: writers-block writers-on-writing writer-quote
I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.
H Raven RoseStichwörter: on-writing writer writers-on-writing writer-quote
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