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Tue 23 Feb 2016

Traitor

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

“If I would sit at my desk and write a description of a beautiful sunset on a winter evening while people are dying 10 miles from my home, I would feel like a traitor. But if on the other hand, I use my storyteller’s pen to write manifestos in thin literary disguise, I will again feel like a traitor, to my art.”

—Amos Oz, interview, New York Times, December 13, 2003

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Mon 8 Feb 2016

Reclusivity

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

“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”

—Susan Sontag, “When Writers Talk Amongst Themselves,” The New York Times, January 5, 1986

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Wed 20 Jan 2016

Craftsmen

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

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

—Ernest Hemingway, New York Journal-American, 11 July 1961

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Wed 13 Jan 2016

Compulsion

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

“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life—sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist—except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”

—Paul Auster, “I Want To Tell A Story,” The Guardian, 4 November 2006

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Tue 22 Dec 2015

Arriving

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

“If you’re silent a long time, people just arrive in your mind. It makes me believe the world was created in silence.”

—Alice Walker, quoted in Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellion by Gloria Steinem

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Thu 17 Dec 2015

Review

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

“I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.”

—attributed to Groucho Marx

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Fri 4 Dec 2015

Violent work

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

“Be regular in your daily life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

—Gustave Flaubert, as quoted in The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction by John Defresne

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Mon 23 Nov 2015

Settling

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

“You never get the book you wanted, you settle for the book you get.”

—James Baldwin, The Paris Review, Spring 1984, No. 91

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Mon 9 Nov 2015

Humble Joe

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

“When I read something saying I’ve not done anything as good as Catch-22 I’m tempted to reply, ‘Who has?’”

—Joseph Heller, quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations, ed. Peter Kemp

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Thu 22 Oct 2015

Insecurity is my life

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Random quote of the day:

“Only bad writers think that their work is really good.”

—Anne Enright, “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction,” The Guardian, 19 February 2010

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