“You’re only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
~ Ogden Nash, b. 19 August 1902
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Ernest Hemingway (July 21): “We are all apprentices…”
21 Jul
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
~ Ernest Hemingway, b. 21 July 1899
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Cormac McCarthy (July 20): “I’m not interested in writing short stories.”
20 Jul
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
~ Cormac McCarthy, b. 20 July 1933
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Janet Fitch: “Torture your protagonist.”
11 Jul
“The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story. Sometimes we try to protect them from getting bobos that are too big. Don’t. This is your protagonist, not your kid.”
~ JANET FITCH
Orhan Pamuk: “A writer spends years trying to discover the second being inside him.”
10 Jul
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.”
~ ORHAN PAMUK
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Neil Gaiman: “Be wise, because the world needs wisdom.”
8 Jul
“Be wise, because the world needs wisdom. If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would.”
~ NEIL GAIMAN
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Erica Jong: “All writing problems are psychological…”
8 Jul
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
~ ERICA JONG
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Jean Cocteau (July 5): “I have a knack for disturbing…”
5 Jul
“When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don’t. I have a knack for disturbing.”
~ Jean Cocteau, b. 5 July 1889
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Franz Kafka (July 3): “Writing is utter solitude…”
4 Jul
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
~ Franz Kafka, b. 3 July 1883
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Mark Twain: “When you catch an adjective, kill it.”
28 Jun
“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English – it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.”
~ MARK TWAIN
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