Allen Ginsberg instructs: First thought, best thought. Oh, to have my every spontaneous thought count as poetry! No draft after draft like a draft horse.Clayton Eshleman, laughing, said, 'First though...
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... (Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read)
Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or...
When you start out writing, your inner creative is just a little seedling with tiny leaves above the earth, peeping out into the air for the first time.
Writing's in the nouns.
All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten fe...
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay
You can swap the message around, and whatever the particular norm is, or whatever the particular message is, when you put your pet-peeve message before story, odds are you are going to bore the shit o...
This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
Good fiction makes the truth believable.
People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch.
When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above?
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
Writing is a team sport.
Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and a story that compels you, muster your determination and make what's on the page clo...
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
The hard part is putting one word after another.
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