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You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ. ↗

— Woody Allen

#life #writing #life

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

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I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. ↗

— Amy Ray

#book #down #draw #i #looking

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are. ↗

— Steve Almond

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The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation. ↗

— Noel Redding

#consisted #experience #fat #i #joining

The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

#change #coded #codes #heading #i

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. ↗

— Ishmael Reed

#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. ↗

— Ted Conover

#new-journalism #on-fiction #storytelling #writing #change

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#creativity #literature #novels #writers #writing

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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