“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.” MenWritingHumansEndsMightArtistHumanityForceCreativeClearFateAchieveHe ManCostOrdinarySubtleUrgesVehicleBiographiesGreat ArtCunningUnbornGreat ArtistYokeForces Of NatureHuman Happiness Author:Carl Jung
“It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWritingChanceSpecialCreaturesOrdinaryUrgesOrdinary PeopleScratchesMislead Book:How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You Source: How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You
“It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.” GivingWritingTryingReasonUseSoundStylePerceptionOrdinarySentencesObjectivesReason WhyFaithfulParagraphTransmitBeing FaithfulSynonym Author:Martin Amis
“I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.” PeopleWritingEmotionPathFeetOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleDescribingStandpointFeet On The Ground Author:Mo Yan
“Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.” MenWritingCountryTurnsStuffOrdinaryTalesLike MeRoughSongwritingSoundtracksWorking Man Author:Jay Heinrichs
“Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.” MenWritingConversationOrdinaryUnderstoodMethod Book:The spectator Source: The spectator