The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
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…gloom of history isn’t the only one Atwood believes a writer must somehow befriend. The shadows within must also be honored. Advising young writers, said Atwood, means steering them away from the predictable and normal. “You need to go into the darkness. You need some blood in the cookie,” she said.
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
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| — | Zelda Fitzgerald (via jenny-schecter) |
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
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| — | Margaret Atwood (via kari-shma) |
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ~Francis Bacon
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Hemingway in Midnight in Paris
Ernest Hemingway: I believe that love that is true and real, creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And then the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face, like some rhino-hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave… It is because they make love with sufficient passion, to push death out of their minds… until it returns, as it does, to all men… and then you must make really good love again.
I logged on for a brief moment to share this with many of you.
Let your voices carry the same authority your intellect commands.
Keep on keeping on, all!
