blogs and writing
To be honest, I hate being part of fads. Unfortunately that includes blogging. Everyone has a blog nowadays. My four month old niece, by proxy of course, has a blog. It's kind of annoying that blogging has become common place and is now not thought of as being anything really special. Don't get me wrong, I love that it perhaps means greater freedom of speech, I love that it means more voices are being heard. Still, i hate that what it means to be a writer is sometimes diminished by the sheer amount of people randomly throwing words out into the air. In a world where it seems like anyone and everyone can "publish" their thoughts and lives, can we even diffrentiate the common man from the empassioned, inspired writer anymore. Once it meant something special to be a writer, to have the power that comes with the wielding of carefully considered/divinely inspired words. Now, im not so sure what "being a writer means". Does it even mean anything at all?
Some quotes on writing: words i do wish i had said. sentiments i wish i had all the words for, first.
"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" - Ranier Maria Rhike
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. -Isaac Asimov
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I do not know how to tell you that which I cannot write.
Je ne sais pas comment te dire ce que je ne peux pas écrire. - Freidrich Nietzsche
"If you wake up in the morning and all you can think about is writing, then you're a writer."
-Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.
here's an interesting one:
Thomas Mann: "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others."
truth? what do you guys think?
Cheers.
Some quotes on writing: words i do wish i had said. sentiments i wish i had all the words for, first.
"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" - Ranier Maria Rhike
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. -Isaac Asimov
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
I do not know how to tell you that which I cannot write.
Je ne sais pas comment te dire ce que je ne peux pas écrire. - Freidrich Nietzsche
"If you wake up in the morning and all you can think about is writing, then you're a writer."
-Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.
here's an interesting one:
Thomas Mann: "A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others."
truth? what do you guys think?
Cheers.