Kathy Acker Quotes
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
Quotes to Explore
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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I don't teach anymore, but I can still clearly see fifth period after lunch - that's a real tough time to teach. And I tried to imagine writing a story that would appeal to those kids - even when they're tired, even when they're bouncing off the walls.
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It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
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I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.
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Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
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First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
