The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.
Norman MailerIt's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.
William Browning SpencerTag: writers
If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.
Charles Nodier(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.
Seán Ó FaoláinTag: writing writers literature creativity
he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.
Machado de AssisTag: art writing writers literature creativity novels
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.
Machado de AssisTag: art writing writers literature creativity novels
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
Jyrki VainonenTag: art writing writers creativity artists surrealism
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
Arthur HolitscherTag: art writing writers creativity artists surrealism
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
Charles BaudelaireTag: art writing writers fantasy creativity failure impossible
People who understand everything get no stories.
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