#writing

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#writing #art

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#art #creativity #literature #music #painting

...writing is not a performance but a generosity. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#art

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. ↗

— John Gardner

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#authorship #truth #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

All we are doing are self-portraits. As simple that. We accumulate knowledge and wisdom and power, and we get our hearts broken, and we write. We write for others to absorb what took us so long to understand. ↗

— Cristian Mihai

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