“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.” ThinkingMenWritingBookCharacterStoriesActionHateTurnsNovelAlivePagesUnderstoodHundredSkinsI HateTwentiesAgreeThirtyShedSnakesI Am Alive Author:Kenneth Patchen
“I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.” WritingBookIdeasStatesReadingFeltMemoriesAliveSpendingBrilliantEngagedPositivelyRaptureBursting Author:Nora Ephron
“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.” KnowsFeelsWritingMeanStillsEnoughBeautifulSimpleMistakeAliveSakeFoolishDivinityLive ByAssertionTheologicalStill Life Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.” WritingMomentsAliveReadyAlcoholPreservesNovelistsCaptureLive In The MomentDiariesPreoccupation Author:Anais Nin