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“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Firsts Order Waiting Hours Known Fate Written Pages Sentences Invisible Chapters Invisible Things

Author:Lynda Barry

“What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.”

Giving Writing Done Gone Fate Modern Poet Critics Wipe Spit Slate

Author:Thomas Hood

“The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.”

Writing Whole Race Fate Poet Propositions Eccentric

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.”

Want Writing Fate Risk Possibility Tragedy Add Preparation Sequels Likelihood

Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.”

Ifs Writing Bigs Funny Literature Novel Fate Serious Battle Awards Doomed Award Winning Winning Awards

Author:Neil Gaiman

“It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.”

Writing Book My Own Fate Paid Print Freak

Author:Iain Sinclair