Tuesday, October 13, 2009
What are we trying to do when we write?
I think the effort a writer makes to communicate with his or her reader can range from a surface encounter all the way to a dramatic change in world view. "My task - which I am trying to achieve - is by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel. It is, before all, to make you...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Short but profound...
and this quote leaves me pondering if our ability to use words is truly what makes us human... "Words are all we have."-Samuel Beckett
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
There's an advantage to being the teller of the story.
You get to tell it from your perspective, how you remember things. "Growing up with five brothers taught me that it's good to be the guy telling the story after the lamp gets broken."-Jon Scieszka
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
Writing exertion?
Do you feel drained when you write? Worn out? Exhausted? Here is an interesting quote.... "Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, the...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
I wish, as a writer, that it was...
...always possible to hold on to this bit of wisdom. Why is it so easy to get blocked or to doubt that you are really a writer. I have heard of writers with many well-received books to their credit, who worry with each new book that they won't be able to write anymore. "Patience and perserverence...
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