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 FOOD FOR THOUGHT (AND THE PEN--OR KEYBOARD) Many of you have posted some favourite quotes; below are some of mine, first recorded in the pages of my own journal. I'd love to see one of the class bloggers reflect on or respond to one of them. They all happen to involve writing. "Good writing means rewriting, and good writing is a matter of redoing--repetition without cease is obligatory, until the moves become second nature. I have never thought of myself as a 'born' writer--any more than I think of myself as a 'natural' athlete, or even a good one. What I am is a good rewriter; I never get anything right the first time--I know how to revise, and revise." --John Irving (best-selling author of Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, Owen Meany etc.) "Our story engrossed brain seems to believe that we exist because we tell the story of our existence." --Renee Fuller "Creation is inherently relational--there cannot be creation without interconnection." --Charles Johnston "Human beings invent language and then use language to reinvent the world." --Tyler Volk "First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it...We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." C. Day Lewis "My life in wrestling was one-eighth talent and seven-eighths discipline. I believe that my life as a writer consists of one-eighths talent and seven-eighths discipline, too." --John Irving Article posted November 4, 2005 at 01:33 PM • comment (3) • Reads 12885 • see all articles |
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