10 5 / 2013
"A ‘boring person’ is just someone lacking the courage to be sufficiently weird with themselves."
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08 5 / 2013
Raymond Chandler’s wisdom on writing, culled from 20+ years of his correspondence.
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01 5 / 2013
"There will never be a good time to write. It will never be easier. If you won’t find an hour a day now, you won’t find it then."
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30 4 / 2013
"If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path."
(via shaenamallettphotography)
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24 4 / 2013
"It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits."
(Source: facebook.com)
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21 4 / 2013
"The significant story possesses more awareness than the writer writing it. The significant story is always greater than the writer writing it. This is the absurdity, the disorienting truth, the question that is not even a question, this is the koan of writing."
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05 4 / 2013
Wisdom on writing from Roger Ebert (RIP), echoing Chuck Close, E. B. White, Tchaikovsky, Jack White, and Isabel Allende.
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