“It should be self-evident that a man who wants to write well must learn his craft from other writers. He should read, read, read. All the time he is absorbing unconsciously the art of writing.” – Roger Sherman Loomis, The Art of Writing Prose
Month: February 2024
“You can’t write. You call another writer. He can’t write either. This is terrific. You can now talk about not writing for 2 hours.” – Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life
“I don’t know why I write, except from the propensity misery has to tell her griefs.” – Charles Lamb
“The brightest genius seldom puts the best of his own soul into his printed page; and some famous men have certainly put the worst of theirs.” – Fredric Harrison, The Choice of Books
“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” – Catherine Drinker Bowen
“True ease in writing comes from Art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learned to dance.” – Alexander Pope
“I wrote it to free myself. It all happened, and I wrote it on the day it happened, and I had all this garbage in my head that had to be removed before anything else could be written.” – Susan Griffin, Woman and the Creative Process: Lighting the Dark
“I have to write. It’s a bit like shitting. It’s quite nice. Especially if you do it nicely…if it’s coming in drips and drabs or not coming at all, or being forced out, if you’re missing the rhythm, it’s no pleasure at all.” – Germaine Greer, Playboy
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