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Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.


Diane Setterfield


#writing #nature

Q: Where and when do you do your writing? A: Any small room with no natural light will do. As for when, I have no particular schedules... afternoons are best, but I'm too lethargic for any real regime. When I'm in the flow of something I can do a regular 9 to 5; when I don't know where I'm going with an idea, I'm lucky if I do two hours of productive work. There is nothing more off-putting to a would-be novelist to hear about how so-and-so wakes up at four in the a.m, walks the dog, drinks three liters of black coffee and then writes 3,000 words a day, or that some other asshole only works half an hour every two weeks, does fifty press-ups and stands on his head before and after the "creative moment." I remember reading that kind of stuff in profiles like this and becoming convinced everything I was doing was wrong. What's the American phrase? If it ain't broke...


Zadie Smith


#interview #writing #writing-life #life

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.


James Russell Lowell


#review #reviewers #writing #nature

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.


John Mason Brown


#nature

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.


Christopher Marlowe


#burning #envy #human-nature #marlowe #writing

Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve.


Stephen T. Harper


#fantastic-prose #just-plain-wow-writing #courage

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions


Joseph Chilton Pearce


#nature

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.


Antoni Gaudi


#nature #written #nature

How become a writer? Naturally.


Edward Abbey


#nature

...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.


Michael Pollan


#nature






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