In honor of politics and of Hollywood's fall season, which features Spielberg's "Lincoln," here is a quote about writing from our 16th President himself: “Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, … Continue reading QOTD – Election Day
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"With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and … Continue reading QOTD and two blogs worth checking out
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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” —Virginia Woolf
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Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils. -- Margaret Atwood
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“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic” -- Pablo Picasso
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When in doubt have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. Raymond Chandler
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The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. -- Sigmund Freud One of the links on our blogroll is brainpickings.org, a site which does a terrific job of curating a broad range of thought-provoking material. Recently this post caught my eye: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/15/freud-creative-writers-and-day-dreaming/ Today's quote leads off this article. And don't … Continue reading QOTD
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know? Charlie Kaufman
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“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” - J. K. Rowling
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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly
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