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“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. ”
― On Writing A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing A Memoir of the Craft
“I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Mackenzie’s 2024 Year in Books
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