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As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.


Natalie Goldberg


#compassion #cow #detail #examination #experience

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.


Clifford Geertz


#doing #happens #his #i #i think

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.


Clifford Geertz


#convey #correctly #i #i remember #information

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we'll see what happens there. I'm somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I'm working on; I've a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I'm looking at producing.


Gil Gerard


#currently #five #go #happens #i

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.


Charles Kuralt


#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.


Howard Gordon


#always #daunting #doing #every #i

The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to believe that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividness and strangeness of the particular, but what is fresh in them is that they still experience the power of repetition, from which our first sense of the power of mastery comes. Though predictable is an ugly little world in daily life, in our first experience of it we are clued to the hope of a shapeliness in things. To see that power working on adults, you have to catch them out: the look of foolish happiness on the faces of people who have just sat down to dinner is their knowledge that dinner will be served. Probably, that is the psychological basis for the power and the necessity of artistic form...Maybe our first experience of form is the experience of our own formation...And I am not thinking mainly of poems about form; I’m thinking of the form of a poem, the shape of its understanding. The presence of that shaping constitutes the presence of poetry.


Robert Hass


#poetry #writers-on-writing #experience

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'


Ursula K. Le Guin


#anymore #because #classes #feel #glad

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.


Anthony Trollope


#art #conceal #his #may #novel

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.


Jim Harrison


#ethnicity #how #open #outside #sex






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