Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Category Archives: Writing
Wise Words: Ralph Waldo Emerson: experiment
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Wise Words: David McCullough
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.
Wise Words: Jean Cocteau
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
Wise Words: Robert A. Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Wise Words: Marcel Proust
To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of a translator.
Wise Words: Joyce Carol Oates
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Wise Words: Sinclair Lewis
It is impossible to discourage the real writers—they don’t give a damn what you say; they’re going to write.
Wise Words: Hisham Matar
Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn’t been written. When you come across a book like that, it is a privilege.
Wise Words: Mark Twain: majority
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to stop and reconsider.
