Oh, oh! I found some...ciunas_alainnDecember 21 2006, 21:48:41 UTC
Here's one to cure your *begin finger quotes* fuzzyheadedness *end finger quotes*:
"Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
AND a few more:
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." -Isaac Asimov
"There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." -Terry Pratchett
"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position." -Stephen King
"Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say." -Edgar A. Poe
What's so fascinating, at least to me, re-reading those quotes, is that I agree with them in direct, complete and utter symbiosis with how I feel about them as writers. That always astounds me. The writers whose books I clutch tightest to my heart, even if I will utterly despise them as people and / or human beings, are the ones who have sublime and rapturous instruction and the cheesy self-absorbed hacks (on the page, again, because who they are as people, sadly, doesn't always come through in the text) seem to offer guidance to do what they do.
I can only guess that our inner lives show up in our work, but perhaps only old lives from it started, who we were even more than who we are.
Anselm Hollo once told me that he couldn't write about anything that had happened in the last ten years. The scale slid and slid, always catching up, but he needed a decade to process something before he could write it.
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"Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
AND a few more:
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." -Isaac Asimov
"There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write." -Terry Pratchett
"Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position." -Stephen King
"Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say." -Edgar A. Poe
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I can only guess that our inner lives show up in our work, but perhaps only old lives from it started, who we were even more than who we are.
Anselm Hollo once told me that he couldn't write about anything that had happened in the last ten years. The scale slid and slid, always catching up, but he needed a decade to process something before he could write it.
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