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We have a love/hate relationship.
"How the excitement comes upon me to tell it all! In the quest of writing, the heart can speed up with anticipation--as it does, indeed, during the chase itself of whales. I can swear it, having done both, and I will tell you though other writers may not. My heart is beating fast; I am in pursuit; I want my victory--that you should see and hear and above all feel the reality behind these words." Ahab's Wife p.147
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We have a love/hate relationship.
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it. --Ernest Hemingway
To be nobody-but-yourself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. --e e cummingsNovelists . . . have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at the Bloomingdale's department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time. --Kurt Vonnegut
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. --Arthur Miller
1 comment:
Dear Becca,
I was saving the best (your) happy note for last, except I ran out of paper upon which to write. Feeling completely inadequate as a friend, I thought I would drop you a note here and say that I appreciate your friendship and all you do for the ward. Have an excellent week.
--jacob
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