Reads tagged with “writing”
The Only Story in the World: John Steinbeck on Kindness, Good and Evil, the Wellspring of Good Writing
“Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love.”
Zadie Smith on What Writers Can Learn from Some of History’s Greatest Dancers
“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”
The Continuous Thread of Revelation: Eudora Welty on Writing, Time, and Embracing the Nonlinearity of How We Become Who We Are
“Greater than scene… is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Busyness and the Creative Life
In praise of the mundane, unquantifiable, impractical activities that feed creative work and fill life with meaning.
Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work
“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”
Jeanette Winterson’s 10 Tips on Writing
“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.”
The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence
“The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Storytelling, and the Power of Language to Transform and Redeem
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”
T.S. Eliot on Writing: His Warm and Wry Letter of Advice to a Sixteen-Year-Old Girl Aspiring to Become a Writer
“Don’t write at first for anyone but yourself.”
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