“Getting a Trust Fund: Seriously, this would be a good idea. Befriend somebody’s rich maiden aunt. Or marry rich. That would make your future as a writer a bit easier. The good news, for most of the rest of us, those who have chosen our families unwisely and foolishly married for love, is that most of the best writing in the world is produced by poor and desperate people, people who are, perhaps, like you.” — Bonnie Jo Campbell, for more specific writing advice (and humor) we recommend the rest of her Pep Talk to the graduating MFA class from Pacific University
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“I don’t really have any advice, other than to say it’s the most appallingly difficult thing I’ve ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it.” — Douglas Adams, on writing
“How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone …” — Vita Sackville-West
“I’ve had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”
—Kenneth Rexroth
“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.” — Hemingway’s letter of advice to F. Scott Fitzgerald, a fine addition to other notable advice on writing. (via explore-blog)
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“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.” — David Foster Wallace (via pavorst)
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Keep trying that thing (via fuckyeahexistentialism, The Myth of Sisyphus)
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