the-writing-life

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ac897e9	I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.	books creativity determination dreams endurance famous-authors famous-quotes-from-classic-books genius jack-kerouac language literary-inspiration literature nanowrimo national-poetry-month prolific-authors the-writing-life words writers writers-and-writing	Aberjhani
19648b7	The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.	chapter-5 paris poverty the-writing-life work	Ernest Hemingway
edae8e2	"If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat."	artistry literature poet poetic poetry pretentious pretentiousness the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice	Annie Dillard
27d1aab	"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."	art artist artistry discipline literature read reader reading the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice	Annie Dillard
22b1e5b	I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieved a measure of success, he must submit to a good grace of its hazards...But he has one compensation, Whenever he has anything on his mind, whether it be a harassing reflection, grief at the death of a friend, unrequited love, wounded pride, anger at the treachery of someone to whom he has shown kindness, in short any emotion or any perplexing thought, he has only to put it down in black and white, using it as a theme of a story or the decoration of an essay, to forget all about it. He is the only free man.	the-writing-life w-somerset-maugham	W. Somerset Maugham
717dcd5	I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.	the-literary-process the-writing-life the-writing-process write writer writing	Annie Dillard

ac897e9

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

books creativity determination dreams endurance famous-authors famous-quotes-from-classic-books genius jack-kerouac language literary-inspiration literature nanowrimo national-poetry-month prolific-authors the-writing-life words writers writers-and-writing

Aberjhani

19648b7

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

chapter-5 paris poverty the-writing-life work

Ernest Hemingway

edae8e2

"If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat."

artistry literature poet poetic poetry pretentious pretentiousness the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice

Annie Dillard

27d1aab

"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."

art artist artistry discipline literature read reader reading the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice

Annie Dillard

22b1e5b

I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieved a measure of success, he must submit to a good grace of its hazards...But he has one compensation, Whenever he has anything on his mind, whether it be a harassing reflection, grief at the death of a friend, unrequited love, wounded pride, anger at the treachery of someone to whom he has shown kindness, in short any emotion or any perplexing thought, he has only to put it down in black and white, using it as a theme of a story or the decoration of an essay, to forget all about it. He is the only free man.

the-writing-life w-somerset-maugham

W. Somerset Maugham

717dcd5

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. I hold its hand and hope it will get better. This tender relationship can change in a twinkling. If you skip a visit or two, a work in progress will turn on you.

the-literary-process the-writing-life the-writing-process write writer writing

Annie Dillard