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Literary Birthday - 21 October
Happy Birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin, born 21 October 1929.
Top 10 Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes on Reading and Writing
Writing is my craft. I honor it deeply. To have a craft, to be able to work at it, is to be honored by it.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
Write. Revise. If possible, publish.
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
The idea that you need an ivory tower to write in, that if you have babies you can’t have books, that artists are somehow exempt from the dirty work of life — rubbish.
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Rewriting is as hard as composition is — that is, very hard work. But revising — fiddling and polishing — that’s gravy — I love it. I could do it forever. And the computer has made it such a breeze.
When I’m writing I don’t dream much; it’s like the dreaming gets used in the writing.
Le Guin is an American author who was first published in the 1960s. Her work often depicts futuristic or imaginary worlds alternative to our own in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award several times.
Compiled by Amanda Patterson
From Writers Write

Literary Birthday - 21 October

Happy Birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin, born 21 October 1929.

Top 10 Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes on Reading and Writing

Writing is my craft. I honor it deeply. To have a craft, to be able to work at it, is to be honored by it.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.

Write. Revise. If possible, publish.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

The idea that you need an ivory tower to write in, that if you have babies you can’t have books, that artists are somehow exempt from the dirty work of life — rubbish.

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices… Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

Rewriting is as hard as composition is — that is, very hard work. But revising — fiddling and polishing — that’s gravy — I love it. I could do it forever. And the computer has made it such a breeze.

When I’m writing I don’t dream much; it’s like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

Le Guin is an American author who was first published in the 1960s. Her work often depicts futuristic or imaginary worlds alternative to our own in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.
She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award several times.

Compiled by Amanda Patterson

From Writers Write

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

Anne Lamott

(Source: advicetowriters.com)

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The Beginning Writer: Overcoming Self-doubt

Hello everyone! For my first day back I thought I would talk about something that I face on a daily basis. And if you’re a writer you’ve probably faced it too at some point. Self-doubt. Self-doubt is the one thing that can end a writer’s career before it even starts. Self-doubt chips away at your confidence and suffocates you with feelings of inferiority and disgust.

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