#writing

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that emerges when it breaks. ↗

— F.T. McKinstry

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The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books . . . so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others? ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

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If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth--something a lot of writers would rather deny: The Reader is king. You are his servant. You serve the Reader information. You serve the Reader entertainment. You serve the Reader details of your company's recent merger or details of your experiences in drug rehab. In each case, as a writer you're working for the man (or the woman). Only by knowing your place can you do your job well. ↗

— June Casagrande

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Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

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Sometimes there are entire chapters written beneath someone's whisper. ↗

— Jake Wilson

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