“Remember that pianist who said that if he did not practice every day he would know, if he did not practice for two days, the critics would know, after three days, his audience would know.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“For ten years I wrote at least one short story a week, somehow guessing that a day would finally come when I truly got out of the way and let it happen.”
― Zen in The Art of Writing
― Zen in The Art of Writing
“What do you want more than anything else in the world? What do you love, or what do you hate?
Find a character, like yourself, who will want something or not want something, with all his heart. Give him running orders.
Shoot him off. Then follow as fast as you can go. The Character, in his great love, or hate, will rush you through to the end of the story. The zest and gusto of his need, and there is zest in hate as well as in love, will fire the landscape and raise the temperature of your typewriter thirty degrees.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Find a character, like yourself, who will want something or not want something, with all his heart. Give him running orders.
Shoot him off. Then follow as fast as you can go. The Character, in his great love, or hate, will rush you through to the end of the story. The zest and gusto of his need, and there is zest in hate as well as in love, will fire the landscape and raise the temperature of your typewriter thirty degrees.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“Ten years of doing everything wrong suddenly became the right idea, the right scene, the right characters, the right day, the right creative time.”
― Zen in The Art of Writing
― Zen in The Art of Writing
“At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.”
― Zen in The Art of Writing
― Zen in The Art of Writing
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