writers-on-writing

Pity the cat, thinks the writer, for I live as many lives as I can imagine.

I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek to silence, and the person seems but a shadow of what they were, under the endless barrage, in the end when laid to rest, the dignity, compassion and presence of the person somehow endures, and their words awaken to speak clearer than before.As if torches ignite, when their flame is gone,and the light of their truth,Is brilliantly lit and once more born.

We will always come against people who don't like our books. People who think what we're doing this trivial or cliché or tries too hard. But there will always be people who love what we do and we have to take those good moments to heart.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book.

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images_ It is not a conscious recording of the day__ experiences __reshly and with the appearance of reality__ The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he.

Writers are cannibals. They really are. They are predators, and if you are friends with them, and if you say anything funny at dinner, or if anything good happens to you, you are in big trouble.

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

Why do I do it to myself? Why don't I get an ordinary job?

Things that only a writer would understand__ou__e writing a character__ou tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

The conditions of writing change absolutely between the first novel and the second: the first is an adventure, the second is a duty. The first is like a sprint which leaves you exhausted and triumphant beside the track. With the second the writer has been transformed into a long-distance runner - the finishing tape is out of sight, at the end of life. He must guard his energies and plan ahead. A long endurance is more exhausting than a sprint, and less heroic.

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

We will read books together inside the blanket and stay warm. And keep writing poetry in our respective journals. Time will fly but we will still remain inside the blanket forever.