The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.
Steven PressfieldTag: art writing-life
I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver
Agatha ChristieTag: writing writing-life
But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.
The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.
Tag: writing-life
it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy.
Mary KarrTag: happiness poet writing-life
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.
Tiffany MadisonTag: writing joy prison neurosis editing anxiety writing-life editors neurotics editing-humor
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead
Warren AdlerTag: writing-advice writing-life writing-process
I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.
Lettie PrellTag: writing writing-life
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave FlaubertTag: writing-life
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
Virginia WoolfTag: writing-advice writing-life
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
Louis L'AmourTag: writing writing-craft writing-life
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