Andrew Blackman
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“I write a little every day, without hope and without despair.”
—Isak Dinesen
(For this quote, and a few others I’ve used recently, thanks to Crazyhorse Journal)
“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”
—Flannery O’Connor
“I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o’clock every day.”
—William Faulkner
“We are here to provide for those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and more crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top are deprived of their initiative, I would answer, [...]
“The author of genius does keep til his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the “innocence of eye” that means so much to a painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as [...]
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
AL Kennedy
The Guardian, Feb 2010
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Neil Gaiman
The Guardian, Feb 2010
Writing fiction is not “self-expression” or “therapy”. Novels are for readers, and writing them means the crafty, patient, selfless construction of effects. I think of my novels as being something like fairground rides: my job is to strap the reader into their car at the start of chapter one, then trundle and whizz them [...]
Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary.
Andrew Motion
The Guardian, Feb 2010
Think with your senses as well as your brain.
Andrew Motion
The Guardian, Feb 2010
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