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“I leave you gifts of Fate most secret;
find no other's Fate,
For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair
No countryfar enough to hide your loss.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
find no other's Fate,
For if you do, no grave is deep enough for your despair
No countryfar enough to hide your loss.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“For only after, can one nail down, examine, explain. To try to know beforehand is to freeze and kill. Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”
― Zen in The Art of Writing
― Zen in The Art of Writing
“It is a wise writer who knows his own subconcious." And not only knows it but lets it speak of the world as it and it alone has sensed it and shaped it to its own truth.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“I claim no victory. But there was blood on my gloves when I hung them up. When was the last time you did a story like that, out of pure indignation?”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“The feeding of the Muse then, which we have spent most of our time on here, seem to me to be the continual running after loves, the checking of these loves against one's present and future needs, the moving on from simple textures to more complex ones, from naive ones to more informed ones, from nonintellectual to intellectual ones. Nothing is ever lost. If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and out aside in your life. From an ever-roaming curiosity in all the arts, from bad radio to good theatre, from nursery rhyme to symphony, from jungle compound to Kafka's Castle, there is basic excellence to be winnowed out, truths found, kept, savored, and used on some later day. To be a child of one's time is to do all these things.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
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