Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Writers on writing

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway

"What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call." - Liz Carpenter

"Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer." - Susan Sontag

"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity." - George Orwell

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso

"when there is no more
story that will be our
story when there is no
forest that will be our forest"
- W. S. Merwin

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