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Wed 14 Mar 2018

Finished

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, style, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The minute a writer knows what his style is, he’s finished.”

—E. L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101

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Wed 7 Mar 2018

Avoid cliché like the plague

Posted by PJ under art, cliches, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The cliché always flourishes in the creative arts because the familiar gives a sense of comfort and security.”

—Roy Huggins, “The Ten-Point Guide to Happiness While Writing or Directing a Maverick”

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Thu 22 Feb 2018

Writing something

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Random quote of the day:

“I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, ‘Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.’ She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph. My daughter will look up from the dinner table and ask, ‘Is he sick?’ ‘No,’ my wife says, ‘he’s writing something.’”

—James Thurber, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 1958, ed. Malcolm Crowley

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Wed 14 Feb 2018

Behind the eyes

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Random quote of the day:

“Somewhere in the blood you have a play, and you wait until it passes behind the eyes.”

—Arthur Miller, The Paris Review, Issue 152, Fall 1999

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Wed 7 Feb 2018

Amazing

Posted by PJ under nature, poetry, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Almost every haiku says the same thing: it’s amazing to be alive here.”

—Billy Collins, The Paris Review, No. 159, Fall 2001

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Fri 26 Jan 2018

An old lady’s worth

Posted by PJ under art, daimons and demons, dreams and dreamtime, quote of the day, writers, writing
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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t (sic) know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done….The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old ladies.”

—William Faulkner, The Paris Review, Issue 12, Spring 1956

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Wed 13 Dec 2017

Combustible

Posted by PJ under inspiration, novels, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion—the oily rags of the head and heart.”

—Stanley Elkin, The Paris Review, Issue 66, Summer 1976

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Wed 29 Nov 2017

Flow

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, stories, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.”

—John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 1930

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Thu 9 Nov 2017

Solace

Posted by PJ under art, comfort, optimism, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I feel like what we need art for is a little bit of solace, a little bit of company in trying to deal with the darker stuff. And at the same time, I would never write a pessimistic book. I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act.”

—Michael Cunningham, interview, PBS Newshour, April 19, 1999

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Wed 11 Oct 2017

Modish

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, symbols, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Beware the modish message. Ask yourself if the symbol you have detected is not you own footprint.

—Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

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