Quotation of the Week: Joyce Carol Oates
“My writing is full of lives I might have led. A writer imagines what could have happened, not what really happened.”
–Joyce Carol Oates
Source: @Quotes4Writers
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Quotation of the Week: Billy Collins
“I have no work habits whatsoever. I don’t write every day, so often it would be zero hours per day. I kind of hold onto a romantic view. People say in order to be a writer you have to write all the time. The poem will come along when it arrives. I try to be on the lookout for creative opportunities, something that might trigger a poem, but I don’t sit down in the morning and try to commit an act of literature before lunch.”
–Billy Collins
Source: The Writer’s Almanac
Quotation of the Week: Anne Sexton
“When I am writing I am doing the thing I was meant to do.”
–ANNE SEXTON
Source: @AdvicetoWriters
Quotation of the Week: Barbara Kingsolver
“The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.”
–Barbara Kingsolver
Source: The Lacuna (or so says the tote bag I received at a literary event last week)
Quotation of the Week: Charles Baxter
A reviewer is entitled to any opinion at all, but he or she earns that opinion based on a description and a judicious citation of evidence.
–Charles Baxter
Taken from “Owl Criticism,” the title of Charles Baxter’s presentation for a panel on “The Good Review” at the latest conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), and published last week on Fiction Writers Review.
Now, if we could only/also get everyone writing critiques in workshops to go along with this concept, we’d all be in a much more productive business.