Showing posts with label daily inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daily inspiration. Show all posts
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it." - Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
-Anton Chekhov-
"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."- Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977
"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
-John Steinbeck-
"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."
-Edmund Morrison-
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