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“Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.”

Writing Done Inspiration Skills Spring Genes Goddess

Author:Leonard Bishop

“One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.”

Writing States Earth Certain Religious Sun Example Taught Spring Bible Errors Ancient Statements Absurd Exception Flats Elephants Shaking Muhammad Earthquakes Accuracy Muddy Vedas

Author:Charlie Campbell

“This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters on the horizon, sitting in the tubs at Hot Springs, once in a while a bit of drink - and, most of the time, working at what ever it is that you came here to work on, whether it be painting, writing, gardening or the simple art of living your own life.”

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the linnets to warble forth their notes of love, and the flocks and herds to frisk over vales painted with flowers: yet, who is there so insensible of the beauties of nature, so little delighted with the renovation of the world, as not to feel his heart bound at the mention of the spring?”

Knows World Feels Writing Heart Littles Poet Flower Spring Notes Bounds Delighted Herds Flocks Nature Beauty Grove Insensible Renovation Zephyr

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.”

Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters

“Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the power of the line, she writes, 'I think the plastics/and sink them' then 'Where is the sand/man hiding the dirt.' These terse, biting poems will make you look around and wonder.”

Thinking Men Writing Looks Lines Wonder Spring Believer Brown Sand Hiding Plastic Dirt Snakes Lilies Biting

Author:Rae Armantrout

“The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.”

Knows Men Giving Writing Firsts May Whole Character Hands Trouble Special Information Spring Rivers Mathematics Faults Physics One Man Currency

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.”

Writing Literature Civilization Horror Intellectual Spring Attraction Substance Excitement Fascination Decadence

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“There are a lot of college writing textbooks that will include essays and short stories, and after reading the story or essay, there will be questions such as "Have YOU Had any experience with a pedophile in YOUR family?" or "When was the last time you saw YOUR mother drunk?" and they're just really good at prompting stories. You answer the question, and sometimes that can spring into a story.”

Writing Sometimes Stories Lasts Mother Reading Answers Saws College Spring Drunk Our Family Short Story Last Time Essays Textbooks

Author:David Sedaris

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

Writing Wells Stills Night Powerful Spring Empty Feds Deep Thought Inspiring Writing Moveable Feast Refills

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.”

Giving Writing Kind Book Ideas Numbers Situation Break Fans Car Spring Give Me Legs Crash Cabins Kidnapped Car Crash Dictation

Author:Stephen King

“I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.”

Writing Home Fall Community Creative Bears Summer Spring Winter Commit Sequence Creative Life Hibernation

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."”

“The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.”

Men Needs Writing Self Action Conflict Spring Resolve Grown Man Inner Conflict

Author:Andre Maurois

“When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore.”

Writing Enough Stories Choices Lines Development Spring Research

Author:Robert McKee

“The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.”

Giving Should Writing Made Enough Stories Imagination Pleasure Perception Spring Impression

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I remember growing up, getting the Colorado Springs Sun in the morning and the Denver Post in the afternoon, and my dad just inhaling both of them, and me waiting to get the sports page from him. I fell in love with the craft. I remember being 9 years old and playing baseball in the backyard and coming in and writing little newspaper articles for my dad.”

Writing Years Littles Remember Sports Waiting Morning Sun Growing Up Growing Dad Pages Spring Baseball My Dad Newspapers Crafts Posts Articles Afternoon Backyards Colorado Denver Playing Baseball

Author:Pat Forde

“The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.”

World Writing War Action Belief Energy Lost Religious Emotion Leader Pride Shapes Worship Spring Destroyed Religious Belief Anachronism

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.”

Thinking Way Writing Next Imagination Particular Poet Flower Bed Ocean Spring Sensibility Brooklyn Wisconsin

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.”

Writing Doe Book Attention Practice Doors Spring Paid Caught Excited Bones Finished New Books

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of a doctrine of mystery: Being or the 'well-spring' of everything is, for Heidegger, ineffable, just as what Merleau-Ponty called 'Flesh' is for him.”

Writing Wells Important Mystery Spring Claims Critics Flesh Doctrine Ineffable Existentialist Heidegger Exponents

Author:David E. Cooper

“Hope, to me, is wishing for something good to be true. I believe it is inherent in all of mankind to hope, not because we need to escape where we are, but because we have souls - and those souls were made for something greater than this world. I write about it so often because I think it compels us all. I want to make songs that people at any intellectual level can feel stirred by. Hope is the basest of human feelings to me, the feeling that all emotion springs from.”

People Thinking World Writing Believe Soul Feelings Song I Believe Wish Emotion Mankind Intellectual Spring Being True

Author:Reese Roper

“I live in a very, very quiet place. I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.”

Writing Home Fall Community Creative Quiet Summer Spring Winter Commit Creative Life Quiet Place

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Bill Blass came in all the time, and I would make him roast chicken with spring potatoes and spring porcini with spring onion. And baby artichokes. And never, ever did he find a better chicken. Norman Parkinson, one of the greatest photographers alive, came every lunch to Le Cirque. And every time he would clean up his plate with his bread and then he would take his marker and write on the plate how much he loved the food. I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.”

People Thinking Writing Real Baby Spring Photographer Parkinson

Author:Daniel Boulud

“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.”

Writing Firsts Moments Stories Spring Single Word

Book:Weaveworld

Source: Weaveworld

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

Inspirational Writing Humor Motivational Action Success President Successful Inspirational Life Politician Words Of Wisdom Activity Spring Determination Charity Uplifting Hard Times Where You Are Just Being Philanthropy You Can Do It New Beginnings Doing Good Success And Failure Serving Others Loving Life Doing You Work Done Success Failure Positive Motivation Philanthropic Teddy Doing Right Determination And Success Doing Your Best Achieving Success Right Action Achieved Success Inspirational Success Failure Rules For Radicals Achievement And Success Daring Greatly Inspirational New Beginning New Day New Beginning Endings Being New Beginnings New Life New Beginning Inspirational Achievement Social Good Life Determination Motivational Achievement Philanthropy Inspiration Motivation And Change Work Place Life Best Inspirational Us Independence Day Hard Work And Determination New Beginning Life Personal Motivation Past Success Why We Do What We Do Positive Work Positive Thinking Motivational New Career Working For A Living Today Not Tomorrow Good Spiritual

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”

Writing Book Feelings Poetry Reading Spring Genuine Reading Poetry Poetry Reading

Book:The Prose of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Prose of Oscar Wilde

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.”

Ifs Writing Years Humans Important Ideas Dies Left Brain Forever Five Genius Spring Remains Bottom Communicate Thirty Five Years Volume Earnest Explaining Human Thought

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”

Writing Order Cry Spring Chaos Impulse

Book:Conversations with Arthur Miller

Source: Conversations with Arthur Miller

“If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.”

Ifs Writing Years Looks Stills Bigs Reading Class Path Horror Spring Red Wine Journalism Paris Just One Guts San Francisco Juniors Red Wine Blurry Junior Year Poetry Reading Satori

Author:Sarah Vowell

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.”

Ifs World Writing Doe Inspiration Process Fiction Spring Originals Profound Rewriting Athena

Author:John Gardner

“And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.”

“Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.”

People Knows Needs Writing Character Helping Happens Type Paper Spring Plot

Author:Anne Lamott

“I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question, From how deep and true an impulse did it spring? Was it written merely to shock? Only to make money? Or was it written to create something more perfect and more lasting than the life experience from which it came?”

Writing I Can Book Asks Speak My Own Perfect Written Judging Spring Making Money Impulse Shock Lasting Life Experience Criteria

Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell

“Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't spring full-blown as Bach or Picasso; they needed models. This is especially true of writing.”

Writing Art Process Creative Needed Models Spring Crafts Creative Process Imitation

Author:William Zinsser

“All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Humans Art Motivation Understanding Love Is Spring Art Is Works Of Art Sincere Declaration Decadence Acts Of Love Declarations Of Love

Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations