Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.
I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin
Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.
Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doi...
Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.
The fundamental unity of the Sequence and Simultaneity points of view became plain; the concept of interval served to connect the static and the dynamic aspect of the universe. How could he have stare...
sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
There is a kind of despair involved in creation which I am sure any artist knows all about. In art, as in morality, great things go by the board because at the crucial moment we blink our eyes. When i...
Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I woul...
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so
Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo
The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.
In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping...
[When asked for her advice to aspiring writers] Run! Just kidding. Sort of. Really, I think the best advice I can give is to wait for the book that compels you to write it-- the one that you eat, slee...
i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.