Source: nevver“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly … But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — from the desk of J.D. Salinger
why write? because, quite simply, it isn't there.
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"How often, in a poem, do we mangle the real beauty we were moved by? How poorly in our art do we reflect our world…and yet, we cannot stop trying. We are driven to create, write, sculpt, and share our crude reproductions of the fine and perfect stuff of our lives."
1 year ago
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phiLOLZophy: Philosoph-Off: Bukowski vs. National Novel Writing Month
November is National Novel Writing Month. Weirdly, the group doing the project doesn’t have a mission statement, an FAQ, or an About Us on their website (come on guys, its 2011) but basically ‘NaNoWriMo’ is a writing challenge encouraging the world at large to write 50,000 words this month….
i’m on team bukowski but also am doing NaNoWriMo. the thing is, it’s been relatively easy, because it DOES burn in me and force its way out of me. NaNoWriMo just gives me a place to put it.
Source: philolzophy1 year ago
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Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that’s a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
so. i’ve verbally committed to writing a novel this november. uh. let’s see how this goes…?
1 year ago
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"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. … And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. … You’ve just gotta fight your way through."
- Ira Glass on Storytelling
1 year ago
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"If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very vital. If you don’t feel like you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don’t have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you are not trying to tell enough."
- John Irving on writing
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INTERVIEWER
You have said that writing is a hostile act; I have always wanted to ask you why.
JOAN DIDION
It’s hostile in that you’re trying to make somebody see something the way you see it, trying to impose your idea, your picture. It’s hostile to try to wrench around someone else’s mind that way. Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.
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"Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there."
- Thomas Berger (via imfantasyparade)
