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“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
“The artist must work so hard, so long, that a brain develops and lives, all of itself, in his fingers.”
― Zen & the Art of Writing
― Zen & the Art of Writing
“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, reading your story, will catch fire, too?”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“If, upon looking outwards towards the external expanse of the sky, There are no projections emanated by the mind, And if, on looking inwards at one’s own mind, There is no projectionist who projects [thoughts] by thinking them, Then, one’s own mind, completely free from conceptual projections, will become luminously clear. [This]”
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation
“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
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