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Pat Conroy _ My Losing Season: A Memoir
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
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Armistead Maupin _ The Night Listener
I couldn't write-or wouldn't write, at any rate-unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands
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Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Thorns and Roses
You can't write, yet you learned to hunt, to survive. How?"I paused with my foot on the threshold. "That's what happens when you're responsible for lives other than your own, isn't it? You do what you have to do."He was still sitting on the table, still straddling that inner line between the here and now and wherever he'd had to go in his mind to endure the fight with the Bogge. I met his feral and glowing stare."You aren't what I expected-for a human.
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Nicole Krauss _ The History of Love
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.
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Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through
It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.
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John Barth _ Chimera
The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated in 'infantile pregenital erotic exuberance, polymorphously perverse,' and that conscious attention, on the other, was a 'libidinal hypercathexis' -- by which magic phrases they seemed to mean that writing and reading, or telling and listening, were literally ways of making love.
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Anne Lamott _ Bird by Bird: Some
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do? Get it all down. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Then take out as many of the excesses as you can.
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Annie Dillard _ The Writing Life
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.
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Annie Dillard _ The Writing Life
Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.
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Annie Dillard _ The Writing Life
If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.
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Dodie Smith _ I Capture the Castle
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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