It smells terrible in here.'
Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.
Tag: humor writing humour odors smells stink
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: talent art writing vocation on-fiction fiction value
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Hermann HesseTag: writing
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
Ernest HemingwayTag: writing
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
George OrwellTag: writing on-writing
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin ShawWriting is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris MurdochWriting is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules RenardI don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.
Philip RothWriter’s block is only a failure of the ego.
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