Thursday, November 20, 2014

The black and white certainties about writing....

"The black and white certainties about writing - is that there are no black and white certainties about writing - except the print on paper." Margaret Buffie




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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say, don't listen to writers talk about writers or themselves. Lillian Hellman






Beware of advice - even this. Carl Sandburg





The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. Philip Roth




Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reasons the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf




I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce the sound he hears within. Gustave Flaubert




Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough. Flannery O'connor




I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. 
G. K. Chesterton





Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nathaniel Hawthorne





And one of my all time favs
I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit. PG Wodehouse