I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.
Josh LanyonTags: writing-philosophy mm-romance-author
I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: writing writing-philosophy writing-process
I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called “culture” – and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species. ~ Through the local or regional, through our individual voices, we work to create art that will speak to others who know nothing of us. In our very obliqueness to one another, an unexpected intimacy is born.
Joyce Carol OatesTags: writing writing-philosophy writing-process
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
P.D. JamesTags: writing-philosophy
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, or making friends. It's about doing what you love the best you know how. It's about making a heart pound in fear, shrink from rage, weep with understanding, or soar with excitement. It's about making worlds and living in them deeply enough someone else can join you there. It's about life changed to words, words changed to life, over and over and over again. It's about giving.
Billie Sue MosimanTags: writing writing-life writing-philosophy
Because here’s the thing: No matter how much one tells stories of magical beasts or impossible worlds, in the end, it is always the world of here and now one is writing about. The better one understands that world, the more powerful the stories will be.
Steven BrustTags: writers-on-writing writing-philosophy
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
Samuel BeckettTags: writing-advice writing-philosophy composition
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.
Ralph EllisonTags: art writing novels writing-philosophy
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never been told.
Willa CatherTags: writing-philosophy
I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month. I think it is a mistake to try to write for the ages.
Michael McDowellTags: writing-philosophy
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