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“Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.”

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Jocko Henderson

Jocko Henderson, a talented musical artist, was born in 1918 and passed away on July 15, 2000. His musical career was filled with passion and creativity, leaving behind many classic works that have stood the test of time. more

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.”

World Way Want Writing Mind Heart Eye Girl Names Ready Despair Approach Pages Let Me Ass Excitement Kicks Changing The World Blank Heart And Mind Fists Kick Ass Nervousness Blank Pages Hopefulness

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?”

“If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources.”

Ifs Writing Done Would Be Together Young Advice Source Reader Offers Listeners Traveler Enthusiastic Discerning Young Writers

Author:Barry Lopez

“The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.”

Knows Writing Looks Sometimes Stories Critics Not Interested

Author:Barry Lopez

“Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing”

Writing Mark Adjectives Sellers Best Sellers

Book:The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

Source: The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author

“Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.”

Writing Scene Concern Venture Bypass

Book:The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

Source: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

“I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to organize experience, to tell tales that dramatize the adventures which readers might have had. I have been that ancient man who sat by the campfire at night and regaled the hunters with imaginative recitations about their prowess. The job of an apple tree is to bear apples. The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.”

Source: The World Is My Home: A Memoir

“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.”

Writing Book Journey Streets Lessons Finals Phrases Encounters Dictionary Voyages New Words

Author:Anais Nin

“I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Wells Enough Use Killing Publishing Writing Well

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

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