...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
John GeddesTag: talent writers genius authority
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
John GeddesTag: truth writers proverbs authority writing-advice
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
John GeddesTag: writers nature writing-advice garden campion
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
Elaine LinerA writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way. It's a lie if you make something up. But you make it up in the name of the truth, and then you give your heart to expressing it clearly.
Anne LamottWoolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths.
Francis M. Nevins Jr.Tag: writing writers stories story storytelling suspense hysteria hunted alfred-hitchcock doomed cornell-woolrich nightmarish
The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the protagonist are at one. In fact Woolrich often makes us pull away from the person at the center of the storm, splitting our reaction in two, stripping his protagonist of moral authority, denying us the luxury of unequivocal identification, drawing characters so psychologically warped and sometimes so despicable that a part of us wants to see them suffer. Woolrich also denies us the luxury of total disidentification with all sorts of sociopaths, especially those who wear badges. His Noir Cop tales are crammed with acts of police sadism, casually committed or at least endorsed by the detective protagonist. These monstrosities are explicitly condemned almost never and the moral outrage we feel has no internal support in the stories except the objective horror of what is shown, so that one might almost believe that a part of Woolrich wants us to enjoy the spectacles. If so, it's yet another instance of how his most powerful novels and stories are divided against themselves so as to evoke in us a divided response that mirrors his own self-division.
("Introduction")
Tag: writing writers character writer noir crime-fiction fiction-writing short-fiction cornell-woolrich noir-fiction
The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.
Pádraic PearseTag: writers remembering folk-tales
She had words in her heart which she released thru her fingertips.
Eveli AcostaTag: writing writers author indie
Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.
Eveli AcostaTag: writers authors writers-on-writing author-quotes indie-author writers-quotes indie-writing
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