Musings at Midnight: Week 16

Monday, October 25, 2010

Week 16

"Papa?"

"Hmm?"

"Did Mama leave us because I was a bad girl?"

"No dear. You were never a bad girl."

"Then why did she leave us?"

"Because Papa had been a bad boy."

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Papa by KASH

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Prologue

Once in a while your hand will write a sentence that seems true and yet you have no idea where it came from. It may be one’s nicest reward as a writer.
— Norman Mailer —

I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

— Alice Hoffman —

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It’s sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you or not. Everyday. Alone. Without interruption. Contrary to what most people think, there is no glamour to writing. In fact, it’s heartbreak most of the time.

— Harper Lee —
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.— Jessamyn West —

Writing is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.

— Graham Greene —

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

— Anais Nin —

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who work as an apprentice and studies the master. read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

— William Faulkner —

Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.— Stephen King —