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Alan Moore: Childhood Imagination versus Industrial Reality
"I was not discouraged in the use of my imagination as a child. I had a pretty rich fantasy life. In every school that I’ve been in there have been, without exception, three or four other people who were better than me at writing, better than me at drawing and all these other skills, who are now working in shoe factories, who are working down mines ( Read more... ) -
Colette on the Difference Between a Writer and an Author
"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his [or her] own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."
Collette
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Stanislavski Quote: Work, Cultivate, Develop Systematically, and Never Despair or Relinquish Love
I guess this Stanislavski quote explains how, at its best, method acting can strike me as so self-reflexive but also manages to look outward and seem in-the-moment: thoughtful but present and awake ( Read more... ) -
...and in its winding find content? (Alan Moore quote)
"Is this, then, what it is to be a God? To know, and never do? To watch the world wind by, and in its winding find content?
If I should feed the world, heal all the wounds man's smoldering industries have made, what would he do? Would he renounce the wealth his sawmills bring, step gently on the flowers instead, and pluck each apple with respect for ( Read more... ) -
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greygirlbeast brought up slang today and my comment ran long, so I figured I'd put it here:
An odd thing. I was complaining to Spooky about baffling online slang, and that led to a general discussion of slang as a phenomenon associated more with subcultures than with linguistic evolution, and to a discussion of slang that attended various times and scenes and ( Read more... ) -
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“All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.” Roman Payne
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two interesting bits on writing
Hilary Mantel's rules for writers.
Stephen Graham Jones' This is Not a Checklist: How to Write a Story.
Jones doesn't mention the need for an accountant even once and Mantel begins and ends with it. Hmm... -
I will mumble in the corner
It seems like not really saying anything to just post two random links--but such is the beginning of some conversations.
Helene Cixous, Algeria-born French intellectual, novelist, playwright, memoirist and prose poet delivering a personal account of her work, writing, the process of writing, the conditions of creativity, endurance, a marathon of ( Read more... ) -
Cameron Diaz on Cormac McCarthy
"Only through Cormac McCarthy's staggering words can you truly understand the importance of knowing the savageness that man is capable of."
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See you 2013
Things are likely to stay dark here until thirteen to nineteen days pass, but mostly because next year is likely to be more interesting (and functional) than this one.
(And since almost everything is f-locked, this will just float forever.)
Everlasting insignificance.
Yay!