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Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#been #close #done #ever #everything

Here's another test. Of any activity you do, aks yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it? ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#writing #art

I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#fighting #martial-arts #open-mind #writing #art

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #writing #art

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. ↗

— Christian Bauman

#writer #writing #art

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#beautiful-chaos #creative-process #creativity #heartbreak #inspiration

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious. ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

#writing #art

The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink. ↗

— Clive Barker

#writing-from-the-heart #art

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds. This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#black-people #creating #hope #writing #writing-while-black

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead ↗

— Warren Adler

#writing-life #writing-process #art