#raf

News is the first rough draft of history. ↗

— Phil Graham

#first #history #news #rough

I never really feel that I’m stuck. I actually think that people are never stuck, there’s no such thing as writers block, I think that theres terror that can silence you. But if you can think of it as a dynamic thing I mean a writers block, it’s a paralysis an immobility and the thing that has immobilized you is a very powerful force. Immobility is itself an act, it’s a choice. It can sometimes take as much energy to remain immobile as it does to be mobile. And if you think of it in a dynamic way then it’d freeze you from the sense that at some point your talent will simply abandon you and you’re just a vacant shell with nothing to say, I don’t think that ever really happens. But I think that terror, bad experience, trauma and so on can absolutely silence you. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#experience

I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#aside #better #draft #drafts #everyday

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#artist #awaken #considers #control #craft

They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled. ↗

— Betty Hill

#been #binoculars #came #craft #got

The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ↗

— Hippocrates

#learn #life #long #short

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#cop #haven #her #prettiest #seen

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#craft #disciplined #given #good #grounding

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. ↗

— Jack Irons

#bushes #clear #cross #did #drop

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. ↗

— John Irving

#building #craft #i #never #novel