Once you familiarize yourself with your tools, you should forget about them. It will only throw you off-balance. In all these ‘rolling shit into little balls’ types who spend hours of time and reams of paper saying nothing, literary masturbators, they concentrate on the vehicle more than what they want to produce. That impedes the end result and defeats the purpose. You must lose consciousness of the medium or mechanics to do the impossible. Like Nijinsky who explained how he gave the impression of hovering in mid-air – ‘I just pause when I get there.’ In a child-like way, real magicians innocently do the simplest thing. The objective is all they think about. I just want to make music the way I hear it. The ends justify the means, and the means become inconsequential.
Anton Szandor LaVeyStichwörter: success writing magic working satanism
I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool.
Jane S. FancherStichwörter: writing contracts
Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.
Jacqueline PatricksStichwörter: writing real-life profanity cursing cussing jacqueline-patricks
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
Mohsin HamidStichwörter: life books women writing stories literature pakistan taboo pakistani saadat-hasan-manto
If the world allows the people of Darfur to be removed forever from their land and their way of life, then genocide will happen elsewhere because it will be seen as something that works. It must not be allowed to work. The people of Darfur need to go home now. I write this for them, and for that day, ... and for those still living who might yet have beautiful lives on the earth.
Daoud HariStichwörter: writing inspirational-quotes africa
Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
Richelle E. GoodrichStichwörter: life reading books writing living conflict resolution richelle richelle-goodrich
If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.
Alethea KontisStichwörter: writing enchanted alethea-kontis
He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your meat, but both acts depended largely on quick wits, fast hands and a heartfelt commitment to the art of the farfetched.
Stephen KingStichwörter: writing
He felt as he always did when he finished a book — queerly empty, let down, aware that for each little success he had paid a toll of absurdity.
Stephen KingStichwörter: writing
Writing means organizing your thoughts. If your mind is scattered, your writing is scattered. If your mind is focused, your writing will be clear. Then your reader will say, 'Yes, I get it.
Robert PeateStichwörter: writing
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