Dialogue has to create a life. It has to be self-sustaining. Conversation is definitely not dialogue.
– Sam Shepard
Tag: life
Quotable 446
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
Quotable 429
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what its about and why you’re doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising … and it’s magic and wonderful and strange.
– Neil Gaiman
Quotable 349
Respect the way characters may change once they’ve got 50 pages of life in them.
– Rose Tremain
haiku 449
city life –
one night a fat possum
tonight four raccoons
Quotable 253
Poetry is not a means to an end, but a continuing engagement with being alive.
– Kim Addonizio
Quotable 206
Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
– Amy Hempel
haiku 299
the lives I lived
slowly pass away
except in my dreams
Quotable 173
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
– Nadine Gordimer
haiku 249
microwave
counts off seconds
of my life