Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
Eugene Manlove RhodesTags: art writing joy author artists-life joyfulness
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
Clive JamesTags: poetry writing phrase clive-james
A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified in stopping wedding guests, unless he has something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experiences of every average man and woman.
Thomas HardyTags: writing
Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:
J.A. PakTags: writing writers beauty imperfection wabi-sabi
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8
Isiah from the bibleTags: writing book remember note table bible-verse
But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.
Leo TolstoyTags: life art perception writing inspiration drawing
I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)
Gillian FlynnTags: reality lies writing fantasy smile smiling liar lie ego writer pretending vain superiority-complex compulsive-lying egotistical compulsive-liar self-righteous crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality vainity wannabe wannabewriter
Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: reading books writing writers readers
A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: writing technology story design medium
A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: money books writing writers sense bookstore profit bookshops
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