If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part. Writing is a way of making the writer acceptable to the world—every cheap, dumb, nasty thought, every despicable desire, every noble sentiment, every expensive taste.
William H. GassTag: writing hatred paris-review-interview
Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.
Neil GaimanIf we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
Raymond CarverTag: reading writing thought short-stories
In my head, when the gales are riding wild,
I steer towards catastrophe
then write about it.
Tag: writing catastrophe
Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.
Dennis R. MillerTag: writing novel novel-writing on-writing-a-book on-writing-fiction
Great writing requires great doubt and great self-confidence. One without the other inspires mediocrity.
Chloe ThurlowTag: writing philosophy
Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand why other people act the way they do” into “I’m trapped in a faerie realm.” It turns “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell” into “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.”
There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons.
Tag: inspirational writing fantasy dragons
Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to parody: 'What is it, to speak? How can I even speak of this? Who is this "I" who speaks of speaking?
Terry EagletonTag: writing philosophy parody rhetorical-questions jacques-derrida
Escribir para mí, es hacer el esfuerzo de soñar.
Julio CortázarTag: writing escribir julio-cortázar
You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.
Joseph HuntTag: inspirational writing
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