Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer
If the writing process offers any glimmers of enlightenment, it stems from the effort to see yourself through the eyes of the reader, to put yourself in her place and read your words as though they were the words of another. Writing is not a reflection of the self but its transmutation. The act requires externalizing the contents of one’s mind into... See more
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Read the kind of work you’d like to write. Read good literature and bad, fiction and fact. Read every day and learn from what you read.
Octavia E. Butler • Bloodchild
But although most writing is done in solitude, I believe that it is done, like all the arts, for an audience. That is to say, with an audience. All the arts are performance arts, only some of them are sneakier about it than others.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“This is a very radical job this dealing with the ideas you get if you are an artist and take your job seriously, this shaping a vision into the medium of words. It’s what I like best to do in the world, and craft is what I like to talk about when I talk about writing […]
Ursula K. Le Guin — ‘The Question I Get Asked Most Often’
Fiction results from imagination working on experience. We shape experience in our minds so that it makes sense. We force the world to be coherent – to tell us a story.