To write you have to have stories you want to tell, you have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.
– Tracy Kidder
Tag: mind
Quotable 420
Writing is not just what happens at a desk. It happens everywhere and always, whenever your mind encounters a thought it wants to wrap words around.
– Kevin Coyne
Quotable 409
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
– P.D. James
Quotable 395
The purpose of fiction is to affect rather than to convince the reader. Its object is to reach him through his senses rather than through his mind. The purpose of argumentation is to convince; the purpose of description is to present a picture; the purpose of exposition is to impart knowledge, ideas, facts: but the characteristic purpose of narrative in the fictional sense in which we are taking it here is to make the reader feel.
– Thomas H. Uzzell
Quotable 321
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
– David Lynch
Quotable 320
What I love about reading certain writers is that you can tell you are in direct contact with the poetry of their mind.
– Noah J. Nelson
Quotable 231
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.
– Richard Wilbur
haiku 259
in my mind
we are all
still so young
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