On Writing | A man lays his character on the line | Norman Mailer, 1923-2007
Norman Mailer, 1940s “The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.” “Writer’s block is only a failure of the...
On Writing
On Writing | Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Ray Bradbury working at home in Los Angeles, 1963 “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”...
Not keep a journal | Jane Austen, 1803
Jane Austen, manuscript of unfinished novel The Watsons, 1803 “But, perhaps, I keep no journal." Perhaps you are not sitting...
How to write a short story | Kurt Vonnegut, 1999
Kurt Vonnegut Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel...
On Writing | Rod Serling, 1924-1975
Rod Serling, Connecticut, 1956 "The easiest thing on earth to come up with an idea … The hardest thing on...
On Writing | The two distinct sides of a writer of fiction | Roald Dahl, 1977
Roald Dahl aged 17, 1934 “And it was then I began to realize for the first time that there are...
On Writing | Cartography | Gilles Deleuze, 1925-1995
Kurt Schwitters, Mz 26 61. Sprengel, 1926 “Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveyingand...
On Writing ~ Story is everything | Martin McDonagh, 1970-
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 "Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about...
My great adventure is really Proust | Virginia Woolf, 1912-22
Virginia Woolf / Marcel Proust “Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the...
On Writing | Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893
Guy de Maupassant by Nadar "Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute,...