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Thu 19 Feb 2015

Gimme whiskey

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

“The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. The number of alcoholic writers makes a lot of sense because if you’re going to be face to face with yourself, maybe it’s better that you don’t recognize that person.”

—Fran Lebowitz, quoted in “AT LUNCH WITH: Fran Lebowitz; Words Are Easy, Books Are Not,” by Bob Morris, New York Times, August 10, 1994

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Thu 15 Jan 2015

Poisoned reason

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

“Ideas are poison. The more you reason, the less you create.”

—Raymond Chandler, letter to Charles Morton, 28 October 1947

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Wed 14 Jan 2015

Good material

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

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

—Seneca, On Tranquility of the Mind

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Tue 23 Dec 2014

Stand and deliver

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

“Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.”

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

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Fri 12 Dec 2014

Masters of the genre

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

“Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.”

—Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chandler Speaking

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Mon 1 Dec 2014

Like nothing else

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

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

—Charles Bukowski, “Writing,” New Poems Book Three

(Apparently, Mr. Bukowski did more than one poem named “Writing.” He’s Charles Bukowski. He can do that if he wants to.)

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Fri 14 Nov 2014

“We must labour to be beautiful”

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

“Concerning criticism. Three years to make a book, five lines to ridicule it, and the quotations wrong.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Tue 28 Oct 2014

Ponder

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

“The words of the writer act as a catalyst in the mind of the reader, inspiring new insights, associations, and perceptions, sometimes even epiphanies.”

—Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

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Wed 22 Oct 2014

Voice

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

“You come by your style by learning what to leave out. At first you tend to overwrite—embellishment instead of insight. You either continue to write puerile bilge, or you change. In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.”

—Billy Collins, quoted in Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page

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Tue 14 Oct 2014

Life story

Posted by PJ under novels, quote of the day, what the living do, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“At first sight a man’s life is more interesting than his works. It constitutes an obstinate, taut whole. Unit of mind dominates. There is a single inspiration through all those years. He is the novel. To be rewritten, obviously.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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