I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.
Koren ZailckasTags: family writing-craft emotions emotion memoir writing-life writing-process writing-from-the-heart families family-therapy writing-style
Writing is the thing that props me up.
Horton FooteTags: inspiration writing-process
People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.
Delphine de ViganTags: writing-process
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.
Walter BenjaminTags: writing-process
The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.
Katherine MansfieldTags: creativity creative-process writing-process
Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien
Sharon O'BrienTags: writing writing-process writing-from-the-heart love-of-writing
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
Anne LamottTags: writers life-lessons writing-process
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
Karl PopperTags: books learning writing writers end letting-go writing-life the-end writing-process finish
Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted people's parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic and pompous; next the plain and simple; now the vales of Tempe; then the fields of Kent or Cornwall; and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
Virginia WoolfTags: writing-process
We can’t choose our poetic fathers any more than our biological ones — but we can choose how to come to terms with them.
Rodger KamenetzTags: poetry writing-process
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