.. My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..
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.. Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?..
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.. People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression..
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.. How many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely..
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..a writer without authority? Impossible. As Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator..
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.. You do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse..
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.. Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset..
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.. Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective..
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.. Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer..
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.. It's good to know wave and particle alpha code, but more than that, the writer must go to the heart of life..
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.. Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening..
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.. If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone..
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