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Harold Pinter (b. October 10): “Language is a trampoline” & other quotes on writing
10 Oct
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning English playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party, The Homecoming, and Betrayal, each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others’ works include The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Trial.
Six quotes on writing:
- Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
- I don’t give a damn what other people think. It’s entirely their own business. I’m not writing for other people.
- Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you … at any time.
- I’m not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I’m not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don’t see any placards on myself, and I don’t carry any banners.
- I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else’s life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.
John Lennon (b. October 9): “Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law…”
9 Oct
“Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.”
~ John Lennon, b. 9 October 1940
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William Zinsser (b. October 7): “Writing is a craft not an art” & other quotes on writing
7 Oct
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William Zinsser, born 7 October 1922, is an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher. He is best known for the book, On Writing Well.
10 quotes on writing:
- Writing is a craft not an art.
- You learn to write by writing.
- Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.
- Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it’s where the game is won or lost.
- Writers must constantly ask: what am I trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don’t know.
- Examine every word you put on paper. You’ll find a surprising number that don’t serve any purpose.
- Nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.
- The reader will notice if you are putting on airs. Readers want the person who is talking to them to sound genuine. Therefore a fundamental rule is: be yourself.
- Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
- Many people assume that professional writers don’t need to rewrite; the words just fall in place. On the contrary, careful writers can’t stop fiddling.
Simon Cowell (b. October 7): “Ending the animal trade would leave more time to trap popstar wannabes.”
7 Oct
“The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.”
~ Simon Cowell, b. 7 October 1959
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Clive Barker (b. October 5th): “Horror is the wild-dog genre” & other quotes on writing
5 Oct
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, film director, video game designer and visual artist known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. He is best-known for his short stories which were adapted for film as the Hellraiser and Candyman series. He has also written 18 novels.
Eight quotes about writing:
- I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
- Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
- Gather experience… Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
- Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
- By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it’s one step ahead – or behind – everybody else’s taste. And I’m not really convinced I’d like it to change. There’s something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It’s the wild-dog genre.
- One of the things I’m trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.
- Movies are much more fascist than books. They tell you what to feel, when to feel it. Popular movies manipulate you. Music tells you when it’s a sad part and when it’s a happy part. You’re obliged to watch them at the speed the filmmaker has created for you. That, I think, is one of the reasons why they’re so popular – because you don’t have to think very hard. The filmmaker has done all the thinking for you.
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27 Sep
For more information on braggadocio, see Sixty Shades of Greatness.
Is astrology right for you?
19 Sep
Alan Annand is an astrologer and writer. You can find his mystery novels and books on astrology at Amazon, Apple, Barnes&Noble, Kobo and Smashwords.
Tommy Lee Jones (b. September 15): “Characters with no integrity are interesting…”
15 Sep
“Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.”
~ Tommy Lee Jones, b. 15 September 1946
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Roald Dahl (b. September 13): “The life of a writer is absolute hell.”
13 Sep
“The life of a writer is absolute hell. If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
~ Roald Dahl, b. 13 September 1916
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