poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.
i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ev...
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...
You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.
sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.
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...
I write to believe in goodness.
Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
When you're writing, you're creating something out of nothing ... A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of m
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never fo...
[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that t...
A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors...
You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this cr...
All great talents are never found in rich exquisite locales with perfect setting that enhance their creative works, but on the contrary are found in the most obnoxious circumstances yet are unaffected...
The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong f...
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.", 1964)
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