Writing Life
Book in Hand: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova alternating with
Writing with Style by John Trimble
"Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of a (typewriter) keyboard until little drops of blood appear on your forehead." - Walter W. Smith
"The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarassing him, always." - Arthur Miller
"Sometimes you get a line, a phrase, sometimes you're crying, or it's the curve of the chair that hurts you and you don't know why, or sometimes you just want to write a poem, and you don't know what it's about. I will fool around on the typewriter. it might take me ten pages of nothing, terrible writing, and then I'll get a line, and I'll think, "That's what I mean!" What you're doing is hunting for what you mean, what you're trying to say. You don't know when you start." - Anne Sexton
" A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problems remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it." -Ernest Hemmingway
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have it." - Ibid.
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
"The first rule ... for a good style is that the writer should have something to say." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them." - John Steinbeck
"This is what I find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (ouch! hehe...)
Writing with Style by John Trimble
"Writing is very easy. All you do is sit in front of a (typewriter) keyboard until little drops of blood appear on your forehead." - Walter W. Smith
"The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarassing him, always." - Arthur Miller
"Sometimes you get a line, a phrase, sometimes you're crying, or it's the curve of the chair that hurts you and you don't know why, or sometimes you just want to write a poem, and you don't know what it's about. I will fool around on the typewriter. it might take me ten pages of nothing, terrible writing, and then I'll get a line, and I'll think, "That's what I mean!" What you're doing is hunting for what you mean, what you're trying to say. You don't know when you start." - Anne Sexton
" A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problems remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it." -Ernest Hemmingway
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit-detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have it." - Ibid.
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." - Thomas Mann
"The first rule ... for a good style is that the writer should have something to say." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them." - John Steinbeck
"This is what I find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (ouch! hehe...)
Ika nga ni Douglas Adams, I'd rather prefer the feeling of having written over the act of writing itself.
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