“Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.” ShouldWritingFirstsPaperBowels Author:Howard Nemerov
“That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.” ShouldHumansMeanCharacterStoriesShort StoryElsewhereCynicismStereotypeSymptomsDomainPublic Domain Book:A Howard Nemerov Reader Source: A Howard Nemerov Reader
“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” KnowsShouldWritingFree Time Author:Howard Nemerov
“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.” ThinkingShouldLooksLiteratureRevolutionInnovationTricksPoundsCornyEliot Author:Howard Nemerov
