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“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”

Writing Vision Novel Impulse Momentary Unified Vision Of Life

Book:The Wild Garden: Or, Speaking of Writing

Source: The Wild Garden: Or, Speaking of Writing

“Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.”

Hard Fall Secret Novel Wise Written Loyalty Lust Compromise Impulse Contentment Capture Elegant Contradictory Restlessness

Author:John Dalton

“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”

Moments Novel Curiosity Philosopher Being True Relate Impulse Journalist Urgency

Book:The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

Source: The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas

“I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.”

Writing Years Ideas My Own Novel Months Impulse Triage

Author:Charles Stross