Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, … Continue reading QOTD
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Media Fast
In my last year at Emerson College I had a Media Ethics class with a professor named Tom Cooper. The kind of professor that makes those crazy tuition costs worth it. Among many other valuable things, he taught his students to be conscious of the amount of time we spend consuming media. He even encouraged … Continue reading Media Fast
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying. Anton Chekhov
Sacred Spot
Running a writing space like theOffice, I'm instrinsically curious about the components that make up an inspiring and productive environment for writing. What I've learned over the years is that, of course, we all have different needs. We've had members with us since we opened 9 years ago. They depend on theOffice every day as … Continue reading Sacred Spot
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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep … Continue reading QOTD
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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while … Continue reading QOTD
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I began to write, and the past lost some of it's power - I wrote it out of me. Graham Greene, A Sort of Life
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We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Be you
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones. ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people Thomas Mann
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