“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.” WayWritingFirstsLooksStoriesHappensFictionStrangeMaterialsBeastObserversFiction Writers Book:Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?” IfsThinkingMenHappensTruthReaderMadBeastSane Author:Maxim Gorky
“Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.” WayLifeFeelsWritingSometimesMomentsSeemsHappensBeautifulExistenceParticularTerrorThings HappenBeastEcstasyPortionsPenetrateMonstrousPlungeTotality Author:Arthur Adamov