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The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the cheaper sort of sci-fi - though it is true that what holds for the most serious kind of fiction will generally hold for junk fiction as well. (Not everyone is capable of writing junk fiction: It requires an authentic junk mind. Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. The most elegant techniques in the world, filtered through a junk mind, become elegant junk techniques.) ↗

— John Gardner

#books #craft #craftsmanship #fiction #genre-fiction

Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer. ↗

— James Kisner

#writing #education

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#another #another way #diary #just #keeping

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#veil #painting

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#night #night-sky #painted #sky #strokes

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#painting

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans. I’m going to keep the door open, and keep the page blank, and see what gets painted upon it. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#plans #painting

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint. ↗

— Banksy

#paraphrased #painting

A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#painting

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

#school #testing #death