Category: Quote and Comment

  • Quote and Comment, Bradbury

    Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps…

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  • Quote and Comment, Butler

    In her essay “Furor Scribendi” Octavia Butler wrote: “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit…

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  • Quote and Comment, Robinson

    Marilynne Robinson wrote in the New York Times Book Review on 24 Sept. 2017: “Writing should always be exploratory. There shouldn’t be the assumption that…

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  • What Jackson Said

    Here is something you need to know. It is a quote that summarizes the creative process. It describes what every writer, painter, composer, and creator…

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  • Of the Innumerable Effects

    Ben H. Winters said to us in a recent workshop, (my paraphrase) that a writer’s work is not to create stories, but rather to create…

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