"Let Yourself Listen - One of the simplest and smartest things I ever learned about writing is the importance of a sense of direction. Writing is about getting something down, not about thinking something up. Whenever I strive to "think something up," writing becomes something I must stretch to achieve. It becomes loftier than I am, perhaps even something so lofty, it is beyond my grasp. When I am trying to think something up, I am straining. When, on the other hand, I am focused about just getting something down, I have a sense of attention but not a sense of strain." - Julia Cameron, from her book "The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life"
Quote of the Day - Saturday, May 19, 2007
"Let Yourself Listen - One of the simplest and smartest things I ever learned about writing is the importance of a sense of direction. Writing is about getting something down, not about thinking something up. Whenever I strive to "think something up," writing becomes something I must stretch to achieve. It becomes loftier than I am, perhaps even something so lofty, it is beyond my grasp. When I am trying to think something up, I am straining. When, on the other hand, I am focused about just getting something down, I have a sense of attention but not a sense of strain." - Julia Cameron, from her book "The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life"
Quote of the Day - Thursday, May 17, 2007
"...start where you are. It's a luxury to be in the mood to write. It's a blessing but it's not a necessity. Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what." - Julia Cameron, from her book "The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life"
Quote of the Day - Wednesday, May 16, 2007
"The main thing is to make the main thing the main thing." - Mike Lipkin
quote of the week: january 1, 2007
"The will to struggle and endure, life itself, had taken refuge in a shrunken part of our bodies, somewhere in the immediate periphery of our hearts." - Charlotte Delbo from her memoir "Auschwitz and After"