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A few more provocations on the writing life…
141). A writer, like an athlete, must ‘train’ every day. What did I do today to keep in ‘form’? (Susan Sontag)
142). If you’re actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you’ll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. (Emma Thompson)
143). You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You might as well start now and get the necessary work done. For I believe that eventually quantity will make for quality. How so? Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come. All arts, big and small, are the elimination of waste motion in favor of the concise declaration. The artist learns what to leave out. His greatest art will often be what he does not say, what he leaves out, his ability to state simply with clear emotion, the way he wants to go. The artist must work so hard, so long, that a brain develops and lives, all of itself, in his fingers. (Ray Bradbury)
144). Write for tomorrow, not for today. (Andrew Motion)
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