I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
We dress them children in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories