Friday, April 26, 2013

Not-So-Random Quote Friday

"Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing."
~~Fay Weldon, Auto da Fay
 
"All the arts depend on telepathy to some degree, but I believe that writing offers the purest distillation."
~Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
 
"It is not a sin to write one's truth. We have an obligation to the living, but this includes the person living within us, whom we may never know if we do not let her speak."
~~Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
 
 
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3 comments:

  1. Larissa T.4/27/13, 12:18 AM

    That's sometimes the hardest thing I think, letting her speak. "...but this includes the person living within us, whom we may never know if we do not let her speak."

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  2. TangledLou4/27/13, 12:05 PM

    These are some very Post-It worthy quotes, MM. Thank you for culling them. I need to hammer the last one into my head.

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  3. Ida Thought4/27/13, 2:09 PM

    great choices for w - I think poetic prose is the most loveliest of all

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