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Fri 15 Jul 2022

Troubles

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

“I can’t get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, 1889 (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Mon 27 Jun 2022

Right

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

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between lightning-bug and lightning.”

—Mark Twain, “The Art of Authorship”

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Tue 3 May 2022

Influence

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

“It is a fascinating task to disentangle, in a young writer, the influences of the established one. How hard we work before we help ourselves, quite simply, to our own originality!”

—Jules Renard, Journal, October 1887 (ed. & tr. Bogan & Roget)

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Thu 24 Mar 2022

Fiction

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

“Fiction is truth. You turn to fiction when you can’t express reality with footnotes and evidence and reportage.”

—Arundhati Roy, “The Air We Breathe,” The Nation, July 12, 2017

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Mon 14 Feb 2022

Chance

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

“The first thing for a writer to learn is the art of transposing what he feels into what he wants to make others feel. The first few times he succeeds by chance. But then talent must take the place of chance. Hence there is an element of chance at the root of genius.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1952 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Thu 10 Feb 2022

Lives

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

“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Paris Review, Issue 195, Winter 2010

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Fri 28 Jan 2022

Sincere

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

“Never be sincere—sincerity is the death of writing.”

—Gordon Lish, quoted in Conversations on Writing Fiction by Alexander Neubauer

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Thu 20 Jan 2022

Complaining

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

“Writing is terrible. Because it is terrible, it is appropriate to complain about it. It is enjoyable to complain about it. Complaining about writing is writing adjacent and therefore entirely professional. It eats up time in which you might otherwise be expected to do more writing.”

—Kelly Link, “Kelly Link’s Advice to Debut Authors: Writing is Terrible, Complaining About it is Fine,” 2019 speech One Story Debutante Ball

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Wed 1 Dec 2021

Knowing

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

“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing, which is not the same thing as understanding, that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him. It is said that his time was easier than ours, but I doubt it — no time can be easy if one is living through it. I think it is simply that he walked his streets and saw them, and tried not to lie about what he saw…”

—James Baldwin, “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare”

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Tue 30 Nov 2021

Diary

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

“Writing for a hostile world discouraged me. Writing for the diary gave me the illusion of a warm ambiance I needed to flower in.”

—Anaïs Nin

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