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Wed 5 Oct 2016

Inventive lies

Posted by PJ under dreams and dreamtime, quote of the day, truth, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can’t be a lie.”

—Eugene Ionesco, The Paris Review, Fall 1984, No. 93

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Tue 20 Sep 2016

It’s so hard

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

“A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.”

—Marianne Moore, The Paris Review, No. 26, Summer-Fall 1961

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Thu 1 Sep 2016

Flow

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

“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

—Adrienne Rich, What Is Found There

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Fri 26 Aug 2016

Suggestion

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

“The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.”

—Mark Strand, The Paris Review, Fall 1998, No. 148

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Thu 11 Aug 2016

Freelance

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

“The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”

—Robert Benchley, quoted by James Thurber in The Bermudian

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Wed 3 Aug 2016

Together

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

“The gist of it is that no one writes alone: one needs a community.”

—Robert Bly, interview, The Paris Review, Spring 2000, No. 154

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Thu 28 Jul 2016

Remembering

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

“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.”

—Mary Karr, The Liars’ Club: A Memoir

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Wed 20 Jul 2016

Life worth living

Posted by PJ under food, love, quote of the day, travel, what the living do, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be travelling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.”

—Cyril Connolly, in a Daily Express symposium, quoted by Alec Waugh in “Self-Portrait – Nearing Sixty,” My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles

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Fri 8 Jul 2016

Condemned

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

“If one is condemned to write, one writes.”

—Julio Cortázar, interview, The Paris Review, No. 93, Fall 1984

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Wed 22 Jun 2016

Stylish

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

“Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.”

—Wallace Stevens, “Two or Three Ideas,” Opus Posthumous

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