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Fri 19 Jun 2015

Write

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

“The best thing is to write anything, anything at all that comes into your mind, until gradually there is a calm and creative day.”

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

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Wed 10 Jun 2015

Get it?

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

“I do not “get” ideas; ideas get me.”

—Robertson Davies, “We Must Sing with the Voices God Gave Us,” Toronto Star, 19 September 1987

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Tue 2 Jun 2015

I vice, therefore I am

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

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

—Ernest Hemingway, Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Fri 22 May 2015

Beat of feet

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

“A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, February 1902 (tr. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget)

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Wed 13 May 2015

The untold story

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

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

—Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks On the Road

(This one is widely misattributed to Maya Angelou.) (Which is kind of ironic if you consider the content of the quote.)

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Mon 11 May 2015

The hedgehog of memory

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

“Memory is sometimes like a malignant hedgehog, running out of the shadows to stab you with a thousand ridiculous little needles.”

—Kathleen Baker, “Monday Got Me,” blog: Kathleen, Kage and the Company, March 5, 2012

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Fri 24 Apr 2015

Weirdling

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

“There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

—Katherine Paterson, Gates of Excellence

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Mon 13 Apr 2015

Here, not here

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

“You write only about people you don’t have, people you want to have.”

—Elie Wiesel, interview, The Paris Review, No. 91, Spring 1984

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Thu 2 Apr 2015

Distant star

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

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals.”

—John Steinbeck, interview, The Paris Review, No. 48, Fall 1969

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Wed 18 Mar 2015

Protection racket

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

“Do not pay any attention to the rules other people make… They make them for their own protection, and to hell with them.”

—William Saroyan, preface, 1931 edition, The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

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