Quotation of the Week: Robert Cormier
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time unlike, say, brain surgery.”
–Robert Cormier (1925-2000)
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Quotation of the Week: Willa Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand — a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods — or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
– Willa Cather (1873 – 1947)
I found this quotation on the Polari Journal website, where I went to read a new story, “Bonsai,” by my friend, Brett Jocelyn Epstein (congrats on your latest publication, B.J., and thanks for your indirect provision of this quotation!).
Quotation of the Week: The Iron Horse
I follow a number of litmag Twitter feeds, and this line from the Iron Horse Literary Review feed made me laugh.
” ‘Tis better to have lived and loved and written about it, than to simply have lived and loved.”–The Iron Horse
What do you think?
Quotation of the Week: Andrew Sanger
British author and travel writer Andrew Sanger tweeted this a few days ago:
Good ideas are like dreams. If you don’t write them down at once, they slip away and cannot be found again.
I think that there’s a great deal of truth to this. I’ve found that it is very important to try to capture worthy ideas (and notable dreams) as quickly as possible. I would add, however, that sometimes, very stubborn ideas do come back…during a jog, in the middle of another dream, or in a variety of unexpected contexts. So don’t despair if you think that you may have “lost” a promising thought. But do try to write it down as soon as you can!
Quotation of the Week: Elif Batuman
My advice is keep writing. No time you spend writing will be wasted—even if you write something that’s bad. Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system.
Source: Elif Batuman, quoted by GalleyCat