God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years.
– August Strindberg
Tag: heart
haiku 534
alone –
heart-shaped
rubber band
Quotable 206
Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
– Amy Hempel
Quotable 203
No thinking – that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think!
– Mike Rich
Quotable 141
All writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and of the heart.
– Martin Amis
Fiction: Setback
Mel had been dithering for an hour, which annoyed him. He had been so decisive when he was younger.
“God, how my kids will complain,” he told Rufus. “And it probably won’t be long before some helpful neighbor comes over or sends a grumbling kid to do it for me.”
He thought a moment longer. Then he snapped his fingers.
“But I’m going to do this whether anyone approves or not.”