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Why I Write
But that’s not why you should write.
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live.
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live.
James Somers • More People Should Write
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live. I’m thinking about a book I read called Field Notes on Science & Nature , a collection of essays by scientists about their notes. It’s hard to imagine a more tedious concept — a book of essays about notes ? — but in execution
... See moreJames Somers • JamesSomers – More people should write
I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be...whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble f
... See moreThis passage is one of the truest statements I’ve encountered about the nature of authorship. You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen—it becomes distorted, a
... See moreJoe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
As Warner puts it, writing “is an embodied process that connects me to my own humanity, by putting me in touch with my mind, the same way a vigorous hike through the woods can put me in touch with my body.”
Austin Kleon • AI can’t kill anything worth preserving - Austin Kleon
James Bridle is an inveterate read-arounder too: Something seems interesting enough to make a mark about it, but you also leave the door open: you don’t see that thing in isolation, you start to notice other things that are like it in some way. Or, crucially, you start to notice a territory that is defined by these apparently disparate but actually
... See moreRussell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
As a writer, you withdraw and disconnect yourself from the world in order to connect to it in the far-reaching way that is other people elsewhere reading the words that came together in this contemplative state. What is vivid in the writing is not in how it hits the senses but what it does in the imagination;