I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.
Millicent AshbyStichwörter: writing-life
Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.
Rachelle McCallaStichwörter: writing writing-craft writing-life bulldogs snuffle
I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.
Brad LeithauserStichwörter: writing writers writing-craft metaphor astronomy astronomer writing-life novelists telescope chile
Novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy. Trying something, and when that doesn't work, trying something else. Welcoming clutter Surrendering a good idea for a better one. Knowing you won't find the finish line for a year or two, or five...
Richard RussoStichwörter: writing-life
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
Susan OrleanStichwörter: writing writers writing-life
The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was infinite, but it was also embedded in – if this was possible! – an even more infinite universe of all things to write about. It was like seeing the Grand Canyon from outer space – a huge gorge that looked like a thin trickle, impossible to miss, hard to hit.
Marcus SpehStichwörter: humanity death writer writing-life short-story
I don't think you can reach your potential as a writer unless you're a passionate reader, AND read passionately.
Michelle D. KwasneyStichwörter: writing-life
I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.
Ron CarlsonStichwörter: writing-life
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.
Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview
(Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
Stichwörter: success failure writing-life perserverance
So I wonder what it is this need to tell.
To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling.
Stichwörter: writing-life
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