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the first task for the aspiring novelist is to read tons of novels. Sorry to start with such a commonplace observation, but no training is more crucial.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
Now that I've decided this is the novel I want to write, the first thing I do is put down everything I already know about the book. These are usually the ideas that exploded into my mind and made me want to write the story in the first place. Sometimes it's a character or situation, sometimes it's a magical system or a setting. Whatever it is, I wr
... See moreRachel Aaron • 2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love
Can’t ever get this image out of my head…
Great writers write musically. https://t.co/J8wDku8r62
“But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.”
― James Salter, Light Years
― James Salter, Light Years
Light Years Quotes by James Salter
This flap, from his notebook for his 1967 novel A Sport and a Pastime, has advice from, once again, André Gide:
Write as if this were your only book, your last book. Into it put everything you were saving—everything precious, every scrap of capital, every penny as it were. Don’t be afraid of being left with nothing.
Austin Kleon • All Good Things Must Begin
Salter said the book was inspired by a line from Jean Renoir: “The only things that are important in life are those you remember. That was to be the key. It was to be a book of pure recall. Everything in the voice of the writer, in his way of telling. I had a list of sufficiently inspiring titles, Nyala, Mohenjodaro, Esturial Lives. I was writing t... See more
The Arrogance of Failure
... See moreAt moments everything seemed like a conspiracy against me, to force a choice, like Denoon’s theory of the characterological collapse of the male in the Western world, America in particular. As women get stronger and more defined, men get silly, violent, and erratic overall. I more than agreed… But why go on about this more than once, if the inner p