Reynolds Price
Author: cwq
“For every poet it is always morning in the world. History a forgotten, insomniac night; History and elemental awe are always our early beginning, because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History.”
Derek Walcott
“Finishing a story is truly the most amazing experience in the world. … It’s like being on the most fantastic, perfect drugs. I feel like I can fly. Literally. Everything I’ve ever written has been finished around 3:00 in the morning — probably because I write at night — and when I’m done, I’m filled with so much adrenaline, I can hardly contain myself. I want to go running or dancing or find a trampoline.”
Aryn Kyle
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
Samuel Johnson
“If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.”
Derek Walcott
“Neither should you fret too much about ‘writer’s block’. If you’re looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer’s block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.”
Hugh Macleod
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Leonard Bernstein
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.”
John Dos Passos