You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul BellowTags: writing-life
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
Ray BradburyTags: writing-life
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: writing-life
Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.
Nevea LaneTags: humor writing-life
Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do.
Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance.
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You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going to get to a spa treatment till next Mother's Day.'"
"Joining the words 'Lose Weight, Effortlessly!' in the same sentence may be a form of hate speech."
"Try to make time for the things that are important, not just the things that are urgent."
"I want my work to matter, my words to count for the good, and to spread some good cheer along the way.
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A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.
Roman PayneTags: love passion writing writers writing-craft writer loving writers-on-writing writing-life roman good-writing payne roman-payne metabolite
There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
T.L. ReseTags: publishing writing-life rejection
Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.
T.L. ReseTags: writing publishing writing-life
One last characteristic of the memoir that is important to recognize is one which also applies to essays, and which Georg Lukacs described as "the process of judging." This may seem problematic to some, since...we connect it with 'judgmental,' often used nowadays as a derogatory word. But the kind of judgment necessary to the good personal essay, or to the memoir, is not that nasty tendency to oversimplify and dismiss other people out of hand but rather the willingness to form and express complex opinions, both positive and negative.
If the charm of memoir is that we, the readers, see the author struggling to understand her past, then we must also see the author trying out opinions she may later shoot down, only to try out others as she takes a position about the meaning of her story. The memoirist need not necessarily know what she thinks about her subject but she must be trying to find out; she may never arrive at a definitive verdict, but she must be willing to share her intellectual and emotional quest for answers. Without this attempt to make a judgment, the voice lacks interest, the stories, becalmed in the doldrums of neutrality, become neither fiction nor memoir, and the reader loses respect for the writer who claims the privilege of being the hero in her own story without meeting her responsibility to pursue meaning. Self revelation without analysis or understanding becomes merely an embarrassment to both reader and writer.
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