Forgeting and remembering: light and dark, says Scottish historian and thinker Thomas Carlyle. Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light nothing could be read there, any more than if it were … Continue reading
Salvador Dali’s precise definition of a cliche QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Salvador Dali
“Every fictional plot contains hints and traces of the stories it has excluded…” Susan Sontag QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Every fictional plot contains hints and traces of the stories it has excluded or resisted in order to assume its present shape. Alternatives to the plot ought to be felt … Continue reading
“…a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy…” E.B. White QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. I feel no obligation to deal with politics. I do feel a responsibility … Continue reading
“I don’t think writer’s block actually exists…” Philipp Meyer QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
I don’t think “writer’s block” actually exists. It’s basically insecurity — it’s your own internal critic turned up to a higher level than it’s supposed to be at that moment, … Continue reading
“…writers who believe one word is as good as another…” Gore Vidal QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word … Continue reading
Mark Billingham on stepping back from writing…QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Crime fiction is all about solving a series of problems and finding a way of getting through or round or over the walls you keep running into. So sometimes I … Continue reading
Fiction sets the record straight…David Baldacci QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. David Baldacci
What good writing is all about – E.L.Doctorow QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader – not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. E. L. Doctorow
The way your brain works at night is different to any other time, says novelist Erin Morgenstern QUOTES FOR WRITERS
I like to call it night-time brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours – which can be good or … Continue reading
Chaos, confusion, despair…something good can come out of it, said Somerset Maugham Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create … Continue reading
ART QUOTES: What is an Artist?
Originally posted on THE REMODERN REVIEW:
Romare Bearden “Dream of Exile” If you’re any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements…
Academics love to make theories…Jeanette Winterson: Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. Jeanette Winterson
Writing theory? It’s not for writers, said William Faulkner QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would … Continue reading
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