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it’s not the being that matters, but the doing. Instead of being a writer, I just wrote. Instead of being a filmmaker, I made a movie.
A life in constant potential.
Not that many people will care about what you write, at least for the first few years, so make the writing useful to you. Write in a way that lets you refine your thoughts about the things that matter. Write to experience what you care about in higher resolution, write to enhance your feeling of aliveness.
Olaf Rude • Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
My beginnings are not beginnings; I just start. Sometimes I have to write the beginning after the book is done. Well, that seems like a natural thing, but many people don't go forward because the beginning isn't right; they just leave it until they get it right. I write what's there, what I know is there. If I have to rewrite it or change it, I'm... See more
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
Only once I found the independent drive to write essays did I discover the limits of my craft, the challenges of editing, and the flimsiness of my beliefs.
A Pattern Language
An Interview with Richard Siken | wildness
readwildness.comyou are not an artist if you are so adverse to risk and self-examination you are dependent on stolen work to form the basis of your writing. my anger may look ugly to you, but atleast that anger belongs to me.
You have said that you started with one idea for The Bluest Eye and then changed your mind and rewrote the whole thing. It seems like an enormous task.
That was thrilling to do. But if I had approached it like, "Oh, my God, I did it wrong, now I have to do it right," I would never have done it at all. It's a process of discovery. I feel an... See more
That was thrilling to do. But if I had approached it like, "Oh, my God, I did it wrong, now I have to do it right," I would never have done it at all. It's a process of discovery. I feel an... See more