“To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.” IfsWantWritingBookMomentsBeautifulFightingNextFoolBrilliantDumbGloriousSublimeVulgarRambling Author:Ray Bradbury
“I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).” BelieveBeautifulFormI BelievePerfectFictionGeniusDaughterIllGiantsProseRamblingBeautiful Daughter Author:Ian Mcewan
“I just sit here and tell the story as though I can't help it. There's always something in the day that reminds me, that sets me off all hot and guilty and scared and rambling and wistful, like I am now.” ArtI CanHelpingStoriesHotScaredGuiltyRambling Book:In the Winter Dark Source: In the Winter Dark
“It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'” WritingSoundSpeechVariousTechniqueRhythmBreathingI've LearnedNonsenseUnusualConventionalRambling Author:Dario Fo
“Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayShouldWritingFirstsDoeEyeLevelsPayAttentionAwarenessToolsAddFinishedPay AttentionThemeMacroRambling Author:Nancy Kress