“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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